Alpine township, Kent County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (15% naturalized citizens)
| Alpine township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
45% of Alpine township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11330
- Northeast: 250
- Midwest: 787
- South: 645
- West: 295
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $117,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
33 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
2 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,654
- One, attached: 242
- Two: 36
- 3 or 4: 40
- 5 to 9: 287
- 10 to 19: 1,645
- 20 to 49: 289
- 50 or more: 69
- Mobile homes: 600
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,500
Housing units in Alpine township with a mortgage: 1,541 (151 second mortgage, 279 home equity loan, 20 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 766
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Alpine township:
- German (20.6%)
- Dutch (15.1%)
- Polish (8.6%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- English (8.2%)
- United States or American (4.2%)
- Italian (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (33%)
- India (16%)
- Russia (7%)
- Cuba (5%)
- Guatemala (4%)
- Pakistan (4%)
- Netherlands (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,858 (86%)
- Carpooled: 802 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 32 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 45 (1%)
- Other means: 20 (0%)
- Worked at home: 187 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
33 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
2 people in other group homes
91.6% of residents of Alpine township speak English at home.
4.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 14,053- In family households: 11,070 (2,741 male householders, 848 female householders)
2,611 spouses, 4,071 children (3,719 natural, 105 adopted, 247 stepchildren), 112 grandchildren, 154 brothers or sisters, 57 parents, 70 other relatives, 406 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,983 (1,128 male householders (673 living alone)), 944 female householders (695 living alone)), 911 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 35 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,497 2-persons, 848 3-persons, 756 4-persons, 313 5-persons, 141 6-persons, 34 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,368 1-person, 536 2-persons, 137 3-persons, 27 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
2,334 married couples with children.
897 single-parent households (258 men, 639 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 225
| Here: | 15.2% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 155
| Here: | 16.6% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |