Chassell township, Houghton County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
Chassell township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Chassell township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1456
- Northeast: 52
- Midwest: 220
- South: 48
- West: 53
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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
6 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 805
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 10
- Mobile homes: 106
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,800
Housing units in Chassell township with a mortgage: 203 (9 second mortgage, 24 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 154
- Construction (25%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Postsecondary teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chassell township:
- Finnish (55.7%)
- German (8.3%)
- French (except Basque) (4.8%)
- English (4.2%)
- Irish (3.6%)
- Swedish (2.9%)
- French Canadian (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (56%)
- Germany (44%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 674 (84%)
- Carpooled: 81 (10%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 41 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Wood (10%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
6 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
92.0% of residents of Chassell township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
7.4% of residents speak other language at home (77% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,839- In family households: 1,667 (470 male householders, 84 female householders)
475 spouses, 578 children (540 natural, 13 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 5 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 172 (85 male householders (64 living alone)), 67 female householders (64 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 284 2-persons, 105 3-persons, 93 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 128 1-person, 24 2-persons,
394 married couples with children.
61 single-parent households (17 men, 44 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
Here: | 7.5% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 2.9% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
Here: | 16.9% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |