Sylvan township, Washtenaw County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (68% naturalized citizens)
| Sylvan township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Sylvan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4576
- Northeast: 225
- Midwest: 732
- South: 500
- West: 114
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $165,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Sylvan township, Michigan:
- 213 people in nursing homes
- 76 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,912
- One, attached: 183
- Two: 86
- 3 or 4: 88
- 5 to 9: 73
- 10 to 19: 68
- 20 to 49: 35
- 50 or more: 120
- Mobile homes: 48
Median worth of mobile homes: $71,700
Housing units in Sylvan township with a mortgage: 1,119 (29 second mortgage, 196 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 460
- Educational services (14%)
- Construction (14%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sylvan township:
- German (28.1%)
- English (11.2%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- United States or American (7.3%)
- Polish (5.3%)
- Scottish (3.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Taiwan (10%)
- Canada (9%)
- Other Northern Europe (8%)
- Yugoslavia (8%)
- Germany (6%)
- Greece (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,641 (86%)
- Carpooled: 209 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 93 (3%)
- Other means: 24 (1%)
- Worked at home: 105 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (81%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Sylvan township, Michigan:
- 213 people in nursing homes
- 76 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other group homes
96.4% of residents of Sylvan township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 47% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,020- In family households: 5,101 (1,378 male householders, 304 female householders)
1,425 spouses, 1,842 children (1,806 natural, 16 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 35 other relatives, 77 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 919 (342 male householders (269 living alone)), 447 female householders (416 living alone)), 130 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 303 (284 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 711 2-persons, 374 3-persons, 392 4-persons, 152 5-persons, 50 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 685 1-person, 76 2-persons, 27 3-persons, 1 4-persons,
1,221 married couples with children.
252 single-parent households (46 men, 206 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 2.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 30
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |