Clay township, St. Clair County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (81% naturalized citizens)
| Clay township: | 2.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Clay township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8320
- Northeast: 231
- Midwest: 414
- South: 320
- West: 107
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $165,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,738
- One, attached: 55
- Two: 20
- 3 or 4: 20
- 5 to 9: 55
- 10 to 19: 13
- Mobile homes: 419
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,900
Housing units in Clay township with a mortgage: 2,221 (202 second mortgage, 331 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 819
- Transportation equipment (22%)
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clay township:
- German (20.0%)
- Polish (17.3%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- French (except Basque) (7.9%)
- Italian (7.7%)
- English (5.5%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (37%)
- Germany (9%)
- Thailand (7%)
- Other Southern Europe (6%)
- Korea (6%)
- Colombia (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,081 (89%)
- Carpooled: 347 (8%)
- Bicycle: 14 (0%)
- Walked: 24 (1%)
- Other means: 19 (0%)
- Worked at home: 124 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (89%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
96.1% of residents of Clay township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 35% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,677- In family households: 8,287 (2,315 male householders, 491 female householders)
2,364 spouses, 2,631 children (2,375 natural, 81 adopted, 175 stepchildren), 190 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 55 parents, 91 other relatives, 135 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,390 (653 male householders (497 living alone)), 449 female householders (408 living alone)), 288 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,367 2-persons, 622 3-persons, 531 4-persons, 204 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 905 1-person, 151 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 9 4-persons, 16 5-persons,
1,711 married couples with children.
348 single-parent households (106 men, 242 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 122
| Here: | 12.7% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 31
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
| Here: | 15.6% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |