South Branch township, Crawford County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (32% naturalized citizens)
| South Branch township: | 2.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of South Branch township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 6% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1536
- Northeast: 30
- Midwest: 129
- South: 89
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,336
- One, attached: 10
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 241
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 52
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,800
Housing units in South Branch township with a mortgage: 294 (30 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 164
- Construction (14%)
- Wood products (12%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Educational services (23%)
- Health care (17%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Branch township:
- German (19.6%)
- English (17.1%)
- Irish (13.1%)
- Polish (11.1%)
- United States or American (10.5%)
- French (except Basque) (9.4%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (50%)
- Venezuela (16%)
- Ireland (11%)
- Other Eastern Europe (8%)
- Netherlands (5%)
- Hungary (5%)
- Poland (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 622 (87%)
- Carpooled: 67 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 3 (0%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 17 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (74%)
- Wood (10%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.7% of residents of South Branch township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,839- In family households: 1,616 (486 male householders, 70 female householders)
497 spouses, 480 children (447 natural, 12 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 34 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 12 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 223 (98 male householders (73 living alone)), 92 female householders (89 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 327 2-persons, 86 3-persons, 61 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 162 1-person, 24 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
313 married couples with children.
87 single-parent households (31 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 7.2% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |