Adams township, Houghton County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (93% naturalized citizens)
| Adams township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Adams township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% 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: 2449
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 111
- South: 50
- West: 47
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
235 people in state prisons
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 915
- One, attached: 39
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 20
- 5 to 9: 37
- 10 to 19: 24
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 104
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,400
Housing units in Adams township with a mortgage: 314 (18 second mortgage, 22 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 369
- Construction (16%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Health care (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Health care (27%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Adams township:
- Finnish (47.1%)
- Italian (8.6%)
- German (7.8%)
- English (5.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.9%)
- Irish (3.9%)
- Croatian (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (32%)
- Korea (21%)
- Other Northern Europe (18%)
- Canada (11%)
- Poland (7%)
- Romania (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 860 (80%)
- Carpooled: 163 (15%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 23 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (45%)
- Utility gas (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Wood (6%)
235 people in state prisons
94.6% of residents of Adams township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
2.9% of residents speak other language at home (91% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 1% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,516- In family households: 2,070 (509 male householders, 119 female householders)
484 spouses, 850 children (771 natural, 38 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 2 other relatives, 44 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 446 (190 male householders (152 living alone)), 182 female householders (165 living alone)), 74 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 238 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 275 2-persons, 143 3-persons, 105 4-persons, 59 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 317 1-person, 46 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 1 5-persons,
533 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (43 men, 94 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 28
| Here: | 18.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |