Waconia township, Carver County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Waconia township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
72% of Waconia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 970
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 165
- South: 17
- West: 28
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 394
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 27
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,000
Housing units in Waconia township with a mortgage: 162 (36 second mortgage, 42 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 79
- Construction (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Waconia township:
- German (59.7%)
- Norwegian (8.9%)
- Irish (4.3%)
- Swedish (3.3%)
- Scandinavian (3.1%)
- United States or American (3.0%)
- English (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (58%)
- Guyana (42%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 541 (81%)
- Carpooled: 69 (10%)
- Walked: 13 (2%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (63%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Utility gas (11%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (2%)
98.4% of residents of Waconia township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,200- In family households: 1,083 (300 male householders, 36 female householders)
281 spouses, 442 children (419 natural, 7 adopted, 16 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 117 (42 male householders (26 living alone)), 29 female householders (20 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 136 2-persons, 48 3-persons, 97 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 46 1-person, 19 2-persons, 2 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
348 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (16 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 67
| Here: | 36.6% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 7.3% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 12.5% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |