Penn township, Cass County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (39% naturalized citizens)
| Penn township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
59% of Penn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 26% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 890
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 778
- South: 111
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
3 people in homes for the mentally ill
2 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,100
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 10
- 20 to 49: 30
- Mobile homes: 122
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Penn township with a mortgage: 244 (21 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 155
- Construction (15%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn township:
- German (27.9%)
- English (10.5%)
- Irish (8.8%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- Polish (4.2%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
- Dutch (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (22%)
- Laos (20%)
- Thailand (20%)
- Canada (15%)
- Korea (10%)
- India (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 664 (81%)
- Carpooled: 119 (14%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 30 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Utility gas (28%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (6%)
3 people in homes for the mentally ill
2 people in other group homes
95.2% of residents of Penn township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (26% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 52% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (36% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 28% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (13% speak English well, 88% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,897- In family households: 1,698 (449 male householders, 115 female householders)
448 spouses, 576 children (535 natural, 16 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 19 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 199 (92 male householders (74 living alone)), 74 female householders (66 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 279 2-persons, 122 3-persons, 86 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 140 1-person, 22 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
299 married couples with children.
116 single-parent households (40 men, 76 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 29.2% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |