Algoma township, Kent County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (48% naturalized citizens)
Algoma township: | 1.9% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
58% of Algoma township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% 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: 6611
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 448
- South: 229
- West: 121
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $134,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,314
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 42
- Mobile homes: 331
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,300
Housing units in Algoma township with a mortgage: 1,411 (150 second mortgage, 223 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 419
- Construction (13%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Algoma township:
- Dutch (19.0%)
- German (18.4%)
- English (12.5%)
- Polish (9.6%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- United States or American (6.9%)
- Swedish (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (16%)
- Philippines (14%)
- Mexico (10%)
- Hungary (9%)
- Brazil (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Pakistan (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,365 (87%)
- Carpooled: 300 (8%)
- Walked: 33 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (0%)
- Worked at home: 145 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Wood (2%)
97.7% of residents of Algoma township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (76% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,596- In family households: 7,073 (1,859 male householders, 320 female householders)
1,940 spouses, 2,725 children (2,572 natural, 34 adopted, 119 stepchildren), 50 grandchildren, 26 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 30 other relatives, 91 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 523 (168 male householders (138 living alone)), 249 female householders (197 living alone)), 106 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 813 2-persons, 446 3-persons, 531 4-persons, 258 5-persons, 104 6-persons, 27 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 335 1-person, 77 2-persons, 5 5-persons,
1,865 married couples with children.
299 single-parent households (93 men, 206 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 118
Here: | 10.7% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 53
Here: | 9.5% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
Here: | 12.1% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |