Calvin township, Cass County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Calvin township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Calvin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 20% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 717
- Northeast: 27
- Midwest: 932
- South: 219
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $625,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 711
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 15
- Mobile homes: 251
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,000
Housing units in Calvin township with a mortgage: 190 (32 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 88
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Calvin township:
- German (15.0%)
- United States or American (13.5%)
- English (5.7%)
- Irish (4.7%)
- Italian (4.6%)
- Polish (2.7%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (40%)
- Germany (22%)
- Italy (14%)
- Philippines (10%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
- Russia (4%)
- Thailand (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 799 (79%)
- Carpooled: 158 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 40 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (55%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Utility gas (10%)
- Wood (8%)
- Other fuel (1%)
93.6% of residents of Calvin township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
3.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 37% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,044- In family households: 1,716 (443 male householders, 116 female householders)
467 spouses, 536 children (478 natural, 22 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 25 other relatives, 49 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 328 (171 male householders (121 living alone)), 84 female householders (78 living alone)), 73 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 278 2-persons, 109 3-persons, 88 4-persons, 45 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 199 1-person, 44 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
330 married couples with children.
129 single-parent households (33 men, 96 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 4.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |