Paradise township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (24% naturalized citizens)
| Paradise township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
49% of Paradise township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3670
- Northeast: 67
- Midwest: 161
- South: 173
- West: 96
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $90,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
50 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
9 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,051
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 10
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 376
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,300
Housing units in Paradise township with a mortgage: 568 (47 second mortgage, 63 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 98
- Construction (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Construction (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Paradise township:
- German (33.9%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- English (9.9%)
- United States or American (6.6%)
- Polish (6.0%)
- Dutch (4.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (29%)
- Haiti (24%)
- Canada (24%)
- Other Northern Europe (14%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,664 (80%)
- Carpooled: 265 (13%)
- Walked: 53 (3%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 81 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (41%)
- Utility gas (37%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (7%)
- Electricity (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
50 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
9 people in other group homes
97.3% of residents of Paradise township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (84% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,148- In family households: 3,777 (861 male householders, 255 female householders)
861 spouses, 1,493 children (1,361 natural, 40 adopted, 92 stepchildren), 46 grandchildren, 21 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 43 other relatives, 167 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 371 (148 male householders (91 living alone)), 135 female householders (110 living alone)), 88 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 55 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 349 2-persons, 253 3-persons, 293 4-persons, 143 5-persons, 47 6-persons, 31 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 201 1-person, 67 2-persons, 15 3-persons,
987 married couples with children.
291 single-parent households (86 men, 205 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 84
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 20
| Here: | 8.2% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |