Smiley township, Pennington County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (20% naturalized citizens)
| Smiley township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Smiley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 430
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 80
- South: 8
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $40,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 139
- Two: 1
- Mobile homes: 64
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,800
Housing units in Smiley township with a mortgage: 30 (5 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 20
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (10%)
- Construction (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Radio, TV, and computer stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (8%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Smiley township:
- Norwegian (46.1%)
- German (22.4%)
- French (except Basque) (5.5%)
- Swedish (4.2%)
- Polish (4.0%)
- United States or American (3.8%)
- Irish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (80%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 255 (83%)
- Carpooled: 34 (11%)
- Walked: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 16 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Wood (13%)
96.8% of residents of Smiley township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 45% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 547- In family households: 471 (124 male householders, 20 female householders)
119 spouses, 185 children (171 natural, 2 adopted, 12 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 2 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 76 (30 male householders (17 living alone)), 9 female householders (6 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 56 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 51 4-persons, 11 5-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 23 1-person, 9 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 1 4-persons, 2 6-persons,
105 married couples with children.
36 single-parent households (11 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 6.3% |
| 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% |