Whitefish township, Chippewa County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (14% naturalized citizens)
Whitefish township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
60% of Whitefish township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 474
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 99
- South: 15
- West: 7
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 925
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 141
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,100
Housing units in Whitefish township with a mortgage: 70 (0 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 142
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Accommodation and food services (19%)
- Health care (9%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Other direct selling establishments (7%)
- U. S. Postal service (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (6%)
- Painters and paperhangers (6%)
- Religious workers (5%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Whitefish township:
- German (19.4%)
- English (14.0%)
- Irish (14.0%)
- United States or American (8.0%)
- French (except Basque) (6.3%)
- French Canadian (5.6%)
- Scottish (5.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (57%)
- Germany (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 126 (72%)
- Carpooled: 27 (15%)
- Walked: 5 (3%)
- Worked at home: 17 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (60%)
- Wood (23%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Other fuel (2%)
97.4% of residents of Whitefish township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 626- In family households: 532 (178 male householders, 33 female householders)
195 spouses, 104 children (92 natural, 6 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 9 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 94 (46 male householders (39 living alone)), 42 female householders (42 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 156 2-persons, 30 3-persons, 12 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 81 1-person, 7 2-persons,
53 married couples with children.
26 single-parent households (13 men, 13 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 12.5% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 11.1% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |