Silver Lake township, Martin County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Silver Lake township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
74% of Silver Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 377
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 86
- South: 5
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 209
Housing units in Silver Lake township with a mortgage: 54 (10 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 38
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (30%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Food (9%)
- Construction (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (18%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (20%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Registered nurses (12%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Lake township:
- German (44.2%)
- Polish (19.1%)
- English (10.3%)
- Swedish (7.1%)
- Norwegian (6.4%)
- Danish (3.9%)
- United States or American (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (75%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 218 (77%)
- Carpooled: 23 (8%)
- Walked: 9 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 31 (11%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (59%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (5%)
97.2% of residents of Silver Lake township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 493- In family households: 444 (134 male householders, 13 female householders)
142 spouses, 154 children (147 natural, 5 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 49 (24 male householders (16 living alone)), 17 female householders (17 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 81 2-persons, 22 3-persons, 23 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 33 1-person, 8 2-persons,
115 married couples with children.
12 single-parent households (2 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 4.5% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |