Alamo township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (70% naturalized citizens)
| Alamo township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Alamo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3218
- Northeast: 85
- Midwest: 297
- South: 91
- West: 38
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
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
People in group quarters in Alamo township, Michigan:
- 95 people in nursing homes
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,158
- One, attached: 18
- Two: 14
- 3 or 4: 27
- Mobile homes: 202
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,000
Housing units in Alamo township with a mortgage: 576 (34 second mortgage, 140 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 193
- Construction (14%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Business operations specialists (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Alamo township:
- Dutch (25.8%)
- German (18.5%)
- United States or American (12.7%)
- English (11.1%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- European (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (22%)
- United Kingdom (19%)
- Korea (19%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (15%)
- Other Eastern Europe (8%)
- Canada (8%)
- Guatemala (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,549 (84%)
- Carpooled: 154 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (1%)
- Walked: 29 (2%)
- Worked at home: 97 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Wood (6%)
- Electricity (4%)
People in group quarters in Alamo township, Michigan:
- 95 people in nursing homes
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
94.7% of residents of Alamo township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 37% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
4.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,707- In family households: 3,387 (954 male householders, 137 female householders)
981 spouses, 1,207 children (1,052 natural, 66 adopted, 89 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 26 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 320 (118 male householders (102 living alone)), 167 female householders (146 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 113 (95 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 513 2-persons, 205 3-persons, 223 4-persons, 96 5-persons, 45 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 248 1-person, 37 2-persons,
819 married couples with children.
114 single-parent households (40 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 209
| Here: | 43.8% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 41
| Here: | 17.4% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |