Shamrock township, Aitkin County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Shamrock township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Shamrock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 27% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 96% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1001
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 154
- South: 13
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,584
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 348
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 117
Median worth of mobile homes: $49,400
Housing units in Shamrock township with a mortgage: 165 (14 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 229
- Construction (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (18%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (11%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (10%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shamrock township:
- German (26.6%)
- Norwegian (16.4%)
- Swedish (11.4%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- United States or American (6.2%)
- Finnish (4.7%)
- English (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (67%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 275 (76%)
- Carpooled: 56 (15%)
- Walked: 13 (4%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 16 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (69%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (3%)
96.2% of residents of Shamrock township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak other language at home (88% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,220- In family households: 978 (328 male householders, 44 female householders)
315 spouses, 250 children (224 natural, 9 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 22 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 242 (123 male householders (103 living alone)), 85 female householders (73 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 256 2-persons, 51 3-persons, 31 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 176 1-person, 30 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
119 married couples with children.
45 single-parent households (12 men, 33 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 1.5% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
| Here: | 1.8% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |