Alabaster township, Iosco County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Alabaster township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Alabaster township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 463
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 19
- South: 10
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 447
- Two: 6
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,000
Housing units in Alabaster township with a mortgage: 87 (4 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 89
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (18%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Gasoline stations (4%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (14%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Alabaster township:
- German (30.3%)
- English (14.9%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- Polish (8.3%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- French (except Basque) (5.4%)
- Finnish (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Pakistan (56%)
- Canada (44%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 186 (83%)
- Carpooled: 17 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Taxi: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 13 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (2%)
95.1% of residents of Alabaster township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
3.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 41% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 528- In family households: 465 (137 male householders, 46 female householders)
146 spouses, 105 children (94 natural, 4 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 13 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 63 (19 male householders (17 living alone)), 32 female householders (25 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 112 2-persons, 34 3-persons, 26 4-persons, 11 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 42 1-person, 7 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
57 married couples with children.
12 single-parent households (2 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 11.6% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 29.4% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |