Webster township, Rice County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Webster township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Webster township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 30% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1434
- Northeast: 43
- Midwest: 218
- South: 43
- West: 57
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $275,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 590
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $127,500
Housing units in Webster township with a mortgage: 252 (40 second mortgage, 49 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 51
- Construction (22%)
- Air transportation (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Air transportation (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Webster township:
- German (26.1%)
- Norwegian (17.9%)
- Czech (10.6%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Swedish (5.7%)
- Czechoslovakian (5.1%)
- English (4.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (21%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Netherlands (17%)
- Korea (17%)
- Canada (13%)
- Other Western Europe (8%)
- Australia (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 812 (81%)
- Carpooled: 95 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 19 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 55 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (44%)
- Utility gas (33%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
6 people in other group homes
95.0% of residents of Webster township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 28% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,822- In family households: 1,711 (477 male householders, 35 female householders)
473 spouses, 650 children (591 natural, 14 adopted, 45 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 10 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 111 (53 male householders (44 living alone)), 34 female householders (22 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 12 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 183 2-persons, 114 3-persons, 122 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 66 1-person, 21 2-persons,
515 married couples with children.
18 single-parent households (14 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 40
| Here: | 15.3% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 4.1% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |