Staples township, Todd County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Staples township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Staples township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 538
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 52
- South: 9
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $28,800
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: 0.9% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 244
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 22
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Staples township with a mortgage: 39 (2 second mortgage, 3 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 51
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Gasoline stations (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (17%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Staples township:
- German (47.2%)
- Norwegian (18.6%)
- Irish (6.6%)
- Czech (3.7%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- United States or American (3.1%)
- English (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (67%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 242 (77%)
- Carpooled: 22 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Bicycle: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 10 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (11%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Wood (23%)
- Utility gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Other fuel (1%)
95.4% of residents of Staples township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (25% speak English very well, 50% speak English well, 25% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 639- In family households: 552 (149 male householders, 24 female householders)
150 spouses, 199 children (184 natural, 4 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 8 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 87 (52 male householders (39 living alone)), 14 female householders (11 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 72 2-persons, 43 3-persons, 23 4-persons, 18 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 50 1-person, 13 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
112 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (6 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 14.3% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |