Orrock Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota

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Orrock Township, Minnesota
FIPS code		27-48670[1]
GNIS feature ID	0665219[2]

Orrock Township is a township in Sherburne County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,764 at the 2000 census.

Orrock Township was organized in 1875, and named for Robert Orrock, a pioneer settler.^[3]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 36.2 square miles (94 km²) of which 34.9 square miles (90 km²) (93.9%) is land and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km²) (3.72%) is water.

Demographics

At the 2000

of any race were 1.05% of the population.

There were 892 households, of which 48.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.7% were married couples living together, 4.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.5% were non-families. 10.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.10 and the average family size was 3.36.

32.9% of the population were under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 36.2% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64 and 3.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 109.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 109.4 males.

The

, including 5.8% of those under age 18 and 3.5% of those age 65 or over.

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