Park township, St. Joseph County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (74% naturalized citizens)
| Park township: | 2.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Park township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2144
- Northeast: 43
- Midwest: 306
- South: 126
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $93,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
79 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,017
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 19
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 82
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,500
Housing units in Park township with a mortgage: 475 (23 second mortgage, 79 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 212
- Construction (11%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Engineers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Park township:
- German (21.0%)
- English (13.4%)
- United States or American (12.3%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- Dutch (8.8%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- Canada (20%)
- Germany (19%)
- Ukraine (10%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Other Eastern Europe (6%)
- Honduras (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,161 (90%)
- Carpooled: 77 (6%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 39 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
79 people in nursing homes
96.7% of residents of Park township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 39% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,665- In family households: 2,401 (684 male householders, 121 female householders)
673 spouses, 779 children (684 natural, 18 adopted, 77 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 39 other relatives, 67 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 264 (101 male householders (79 living alone)), 109 female householders (88 living alone)), 54 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 80 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 377 2-persons, 169 3-persons, 152 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 167 1-person, 39 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
485 married couples with children.
112 single-parent households (38 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 37
| Here: | 12.7% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 6.8% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |