Wakeshma township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Wakeshma township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Wakeshma township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1214
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 97
- South: 56
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 442
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 63
Median worth of mobile homes: $76,300
Housing units in Wakeshma township with a mortgage: 184 (14 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 50
- Construction (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Paper (6%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wakeshma township:
- German (27.4%)
- Dutch (13.7%)
- English (12.2%)
- United States or American (11.7%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Polish (4.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- India (22%)
- Hungary (17%)
- Micronesia (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 586 (84%)
- Carpooled: 61 (9%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 3 (0%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 40 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (61%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Wood (12%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.5% of residents of Wakeshma township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 42% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
0.5% 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: 1,404- In family households: 1,314 (342 male householders, 71 female householders)
334 spouses, 473 children (435 natural, 4 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 12 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 90 (55 male householders (48 living alone)), 22 female householders (21 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 13 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 167 2-persons, 87 3-persons, 99 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 69 1-person, 6 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
288 married couples with children.
78 single-parent households (33 men, 45 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 8.1% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |