Sherwood township, Branch County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Sherwood township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Sherwood township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% 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: 2017
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 130
- South: 113
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $129,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 803
- Two: 6
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 312
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,000
Housing units in Sherwood township with a mortgage: 303 (12 second mortgage, 28 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 125
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Construction (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sherwood township:
- German (20.5%)
- United States or American (16.4%)
- English (12.5%)
- Dutch (7.6%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- French (except Basque) (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (57%)
- Korea (43%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 811 (80%)
- Carpooled: 136 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (1%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (40%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Wood (7%)
- Electricity (2%)
98.2% of residents of Sherwood township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 54% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 11% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,337- In family households: 2,054 (591 male householders, 105 female householders)
529 spouses, 681 children (605 natural, 10 adopted, 66 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 21 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 18 other relatives, 79 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 283 (155 male householders (111 living alone)), 73 female householders (63 living alone)), 55 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 334 2-persons, 157 3-persons, 124 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 174 1-person, 51 2-persons, 3 5-persons,
356 married couples with children.
169 single-parent households (69 men, 100 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 14.2% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |