Sylvan township, Osceola County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Sylvan township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Sylvan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 758
- Northeast: 41
- Midwest: 115
- South: 46
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
20 people in other group homes
10 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 471
- One, attached: 2
- 20 to 49: 1
- Mobile homes: 231
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,500
Housing units in Sylvan township with a mortgage: 53 (0 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 79
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Construction (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sylvan township:
- German (22.2%)
- United States or American (17.3%)
- English (10.9%)
- Irish (10.6%)
- Polish (6.0%)
- Dutch (4.9%)
- Swedish (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (27%)
- Poland (18%)
- Panama (18%)
- Argentina (18%)
- Colombia (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 250 (69%)
- Carpooled: 70 (19%)
- Taxi: 2 (1%)
- Bicycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (5%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (72%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Wood (7%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
20 people in other group homes
10 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
89.9% of residents of Sylvan township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
8.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (36% speak English very well, 61% speak English well, 1% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 961- In family households: 826 (231 male householders, 38 female householders)
231 spouses, 304 children (267 natural, 7 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 3 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 135 (74 male householders (57 living alone)), 39 female householders (38 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 35 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 141 2-persons, 53 3-persons, 36 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 95 1-person, 16 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
191 married couples with children.
68 single-parent households (30 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
| Here: | 17.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 31.3% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |