Thomastown township, Wadena County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Thomastown township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
57% of Thomastown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1940
- Northeast: 391
- Midwest: 69
- South: 116
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $108,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.8% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 716
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 20
- 5 to 9: 13
- 10 to 19: 13
- Mobile homes: 292
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,700
Housing units in Thomastown township with a mortgage: 223 (18 second mortgage, 41 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 123
- Educational services (18%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Construction (11%)
- Health care (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Rail transportation (4%)
- Educational services (34%)
- Health care (11%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Food (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Postsecondary teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (12%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thomastown township:
- German (25.4%)
- English (19.4%)
- Irish (14.7%)
- United States or American (10.1%)
- Polish (5.8%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (38%)
- Germany (25%)
- Other Western Europe (25%)
- Other Western Asia (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,004 (79%)
- Carpooled: 167 (13%)
- Walked: 5 (0%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 75 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Wood (9%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
96.9% of residents of Thomastown township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,549- In family households: 2,228 (594 male householders, 136 female householders)
638 spouses, 747 children (649 natural, 26 adopted, 72 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 31 parents, 13 other relatives, 54 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 321 (161 male householders (121 living alone)), 94 female householders (86 living alone)), 66 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 12 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 301 2-persons, 212 3-persons, 125 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 42 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 207 1-person, 40 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
181 married couples with children.
10 single-parent households (8 men, 2 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
| Here: | 12.4% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |