Benton charter township, Berrien County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Benton charter township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of Benton charter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10666
- Northeast: 130
- Midwest: 2176
- South: 2751
- West: 192
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $46,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Benton charter township, Michigan:
- 91 people in nursing homes
- 90 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 58 people in other group homes
- 27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,696
- One, attached: 180
- Two: 147
- 3 or 4: 284
- 5 to 9: 512
- 10 to 19: 399
- 20 to 49: 148
- 50 or more: 198
- Mobile homes: 532
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,400
Housing units in Benton charter township with a mortgage: 1,787 (150 second mortgage, 278 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,231
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (3%)
- Health care (11%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Benton charter township:
- German (9.9%)
- United States or American (5.5%)
- Irish (4.5%)
- African (3.7%)
- English (2.7%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Polish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (35%)
- India (8%)
- Germany (6%)
- Poland (6%)
- Canada (6%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- Other Eastern Africa (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,619 (75%)
- Carpooled: 1,167 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 38 (1%)
- Taxi: 23 (0%)
- Bicycle: 40 (1%)
- Walked: 97 (2%)
- Other means: 28 (0%)
- Worked at home: 186 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
People in group quarters in Benton charter township, Michigan:
- 91 people in nursing homes
- 90 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 58 people in other group homes
- 27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
94.3% of residents of Benton charter township speak English at home.
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (45% speak English very well, 55% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,091- In family households: 13,180 (2,309 male householders, 1,843 female householders)
2,272 spouses, 5,377 children (5,006 natural, 117 adopted, 254 stepchildren), 529 grandchildren, 169 brothers or sisters, 66 parents, 204 other relatives, 411 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,911 (1,041 male householders (837 living alone)), 1,331 female householders (1,164 living alone)), 539 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 290 (162 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,779 2-persons, 1,020 3-persons, 741 4-persons, 370 5-persons, 148 6-persons, 94 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,001 1-person, 287 2-persons, 51 3-persons, 14 4-persons, 19 5-persons,
1,649 married couples with children.
2,461 single-parent households (251 men, 2,210 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 189
| Here: | 8.6% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 78
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 136
| Here: | 22.9% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |