Somerset township, Hillsdale County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Somerset township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Somerset township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 18% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 88% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3199
- Northeast: 121
- Midwest: 527
- South: 254
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $135,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
3 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,921
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 1
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 15
- Mobile homes: 209
Median worth of mobile homes: $41,700
Housing units in Somerset township with a mortgage: 814 (81 second mortgage, 153 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 365
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Construction (10%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Somerset township:
- German (23.3%)
- United States or American (14.1%)
- English (12.2%)
- Polish (9.0%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- French (except Basque) (6.0%)
- Italian (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (43%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (10%)
- Hungary (9%)
- Philippines (7%)
- Mexico (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- France (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,621 (86%)
- Carpooled: 182 (10%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 51 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (3%)
3 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
96.1% of residents of Somerset township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,249- In family households: 3,782 (1,157 male householders, 123 female householders)
1,173 spouses, 1,133 children (973 natural, 56 adopted, 104 stepchildren), 59 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 16 other relatives, 64 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 467 (222 male householders (180 living alone)), 166 female householders (136 living alone)), 79 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 691 2-persons, 252 3-persons, 214 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 316 1-person, 58 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
773 married couples with children.
132 single-parent households (50 men, 82 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 3.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
| Here: | 21.6% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |