Balkan township, St. Louis County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Balkan township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Balkan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 670
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 74
- South: 25
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 354
- Mobile homes: 5
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Balkan township with a mortgage: 51 (3 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 60
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (28%)
- Construction (17%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Air transportation (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Extraction workers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Balkan township:
- Finnish (20.3%)
- Italian (13.6%)
- German (13.5%)
- Norwegian (10.3%)
- Slovene (6.4%)
- Swedish (5.9%)
- Polish (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (29%)
- Germany (29%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 331 (85%)
- Carpooled: 45 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 12 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (47%)
- Wood (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Utility gas (3%)
98.3% of residents of Balkan township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 805- In family households: 703 (224 male householders, 23 female householders)
209 spouses, 216 children (209 natural, 2 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 0 other relatives, 7 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 102 (37 male householders (24 living alone)), 54 female householders (54 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 129 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 40 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 78 1-person, 13 2-persons,
149 married couples with children.
19 single-parent households (7 men, 12 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 19.6% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |