Forest township, Cheboygan County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Forest township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Forest township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 8% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 909
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 61
- South: 49
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 460
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 131
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,400
Housing units in Forest township with a mortgage: 78 (9 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 88
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (29%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Food (9%)
- Gasoline stations (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (26%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Food (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (20%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other transportation workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (12%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Forest township:
- German (25.1%)
- United States or American (18.9%)
- English (12.0%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- French (except Basque) (5.4%)
- Polish (5.4%)
- French Canadian (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (56%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (22%)
- Chile (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 211 (64%)
- Carpooled: 102 (31%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Wood (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Electricity (2%)
98.0% of residents of Forest township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,060- In family households: 921 (247 male householders, 63 female householders)
252 spouses, 278 children (239 natural, 10 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 7 other relatives, 46 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 139 (58 male householders (49 living alone)), 51 female householders (39 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 156 2-persons, 62 3-persons, 58 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 13 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 88 1-person, 12 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 1 4-persons,
161 married couples with children.
56 single-parent households (13 men, 43 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 9.2% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |