Arbo township, Itasca County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Arbo township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Arbo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 749
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 92
- South: 13
- West: 43
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 365
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 77
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,400
Housing units in Arbo township with a mortgage: 97 (7 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 59
- Construction (14%)
- Paper (12%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Construction (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Financial managers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Arbo township:
- German (33.0%)
- Norwegian (13.2%)
- Swedish (8.0%)
- United States or American (6.3%)
- English (5.6%)
- Finnish (5.2%)
- Irish (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (60%)
- Germany (20%)
- Canada (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 413 (91%)
- Carpooled: 29 (6%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 9 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (35%)
- Wood (13%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Utility gas (1%)
95.0% of residents of Arbo township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (20% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 40% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 923- In family households: 856 (245 male householders, 27 female householders)
272 spouses, 284 children (237 natural, 6 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 6 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 67 (39 male householders (37 living alone)), 24 female householders (23 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 124 2-persons, 58 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 60 1-person, 3 2-persons,
177 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (12 men, 12 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 10.4% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 15.2% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |