Rockford township, Wright County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Rockford township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
71% of Rockford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2871
- Northeast: 28
- Midwest: 417
- South: 40
- West: 56
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
24 people in other workers' dormitories
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,130
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 34
Median worth of mobile homes: $70,700
Housing units in Rockford township with a mortgage: 696 (104 second mortgage, 98 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 95
- Construction (18%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Food (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (9%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rockford township:
- German (46.0%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- Norwegian (9.3%)
- Swedish (6.5%)
- Finnish (4.4%)
- Polish (3.4%)
- United States or American (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (39%)
- Malaysia (16%)
- Ethiopia (14%)
- Korea (13%)
- Other Eastern Europe (11%)
- Ukraine (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,597 (82%)
- Carpooled: 164 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 172 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
24 people in other workers' dormitories
98.0% of residents of Rockford township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,453- In family households: 3,160 (791 male householders, 169 female householders)
852 spouses, 1,161 children (1,099 natural, 41 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 19 other relatives, 49 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 293 (125 male householders (84 living alone)), 71 female householders (59 living alone)), 97 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 24 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 362 2-persons, 217 3-persons, 208 4-persons, 123 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 29 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 143 1-person, 39 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 7 6-persons,
856 married couples with children.
75 single-parent households (26 men, 49 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 14.4% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |