Columbus township, St. Clair County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (48% naturalized citizens)
| Columbus township: | 4.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
57% of Columbus township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 36% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3788
- Northeast: 44
- Midwest: 127
- South: 165
- West: 114
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $120,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,159
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 407
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,100
Housing units in Columbus township with a mortgage: 539 (26 second mortgage, 73 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 164
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (11%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Columbus township:
- German (28.1%)
- Polish (16.8%)
- Italian (9.5%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- English (7.6%)
- United States or American (6.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (36%)
- Mexico (26%)
- Germany (17%)
- Netherlands (8%)
- Ireland (7%)
- Other Northern Europe (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,846 (85%)
- Carpooled: 212 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 42 (2%)
- Other means: 9 (0%)
- Worked at home: 49 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
94.2% of residents of Columbus township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 9% don't speak English at all).
3.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,500- In family households: 4,295 (1,135 male householders, 207 female householders)
1,152 spouses, 1,555 children (1,404 natural, 42 adopted, 109 stepchildren), 37 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 50 parents, 38 other relatives, 88 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 205 (118 male householders (100 living alone)), 65 female householders (56 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 510 2-persons, 287 3-persons, 341 4-persons, 149 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 34 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 156 1-person, 27 2-persons,
1,140 married couples with children.
183 single-parent households (57 men, 126 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 178
| Here: | 26.1% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 31
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 29
| Here: | 27.6% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |