Fort Gratiot township, St. Clair County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (66% naturalized citizens)
| Fort Gratiot township: | 3.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
57% of Fort Gratiot township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8891
- Northeast: 239
- Midwest: 502
- South: 426
- West: 103
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $101,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Fort Gratiot township, Michigan:
- 149 people in nursing homes
- 93 people in other group homes
- 11 people in homes for the physically handicapped
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,343
- One, attached: 44
- Two: 42
- 3 or 4: 66
- 5 to 9: 301
- 10 to 19: 201
- 20 to 49: 34
- 50 or more: 27
- Mobile homes: 284
Median worth of mobile homes: $61,200
Housing units in Fort Gratiot township with a mortgage: 1,909 (117 second mortgage, 281 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 857
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fort Gratiot township:
- German (26.2%)
- Irish (13.1%)
- English (11.1%)
- Polish (6.4%)
- French (except Basque) (6.2%)
- United States or American (5.8%)
- Italian (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (51%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Asia, n.e.c. (9%)
- Austria (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- India (4%)
- Korea (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,697 (87%)
- Carpooled: 460 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (0%)
- Bicycle: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 38 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 197 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Fort Gratiot township, Michigan:
- 149 people in nursing homes
- 93 people in other group homes
- 11 people in homes for the physically handicapped
95.8% of residents of Fort Gratiot township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,413- In family households: 9,098 (2,531 male householders, 502 female householders)
2,653 spouses, 3,030 children (2,759 natural, 97 adopted, 174 stepchildren), 100 grandchildren, 52 brothers or sisters, 39 parents, 26 other relatives, 165 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,315 (514 male householders (389 living alone)), 595 female householders (550 living alone)), 206 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 253 (146 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,378 2-persons, 609 3-persons, 640 4-persons, 313 5-persons, 71 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 939 1-person, 142 2-persons, 23 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
2,069 married couples with children.
439 single-parent households (94 men, 345 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 102
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 45
| Here: | 8.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |