Arbela township, Tuscola County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 284 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Arbela township: | 284.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
51% of Arbela 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, 62% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 33930
- Northeast: 1927
- Midwest: 4902
- South: 2979
- West: 1615
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $136,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
4 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 13,732
- One, attached: 1,839
- Two: 189
- 3 or 4: 291
- 5 to 9: 374
- 10 to 19: 508
- 20 to 49: 118
- 50 or more: 252
- Mobile homes: 645
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,500
Housing units in Arbela township with a mortgage: 11,715 (1,073 second mortgage, 1,462 home equity loan, 20 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,455
- Construction (12%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Arbela township:
- German (20.6%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- Polish (8.3%)
- Italian (5.6%)
- United States or American (5.2%)
- English (4.6%)
- Swedish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (68%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Poland (3%)
- India (3%)
- United Kingdom (2%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (2%)
- Germany (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 20,996 (78%)
- Carpooled: 3,805 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 96 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 11 (0%)
- Railroad: 1,020 (4%)
- Taxi: 1 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Bicycle: 32 (0%)
- Walked: 290 (1%)
- Other means: 118 (0%)
- Worked at home: 691 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (93%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
4 people in other group homes
75.6% of residents of Arbela township speak English at home.
19.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (68% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 54,797- In family households: 50,097 (11,015 male householders, 2,703 female householders)
11,492 spouses, 20,099 children (18,905 natural, 353 adopted, 841 stepchildren), 822 grandchildren, 534 brothers or sisters, 428 parents, 1,592 other relatives, 1,412 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,700 (1,913 male householders (1,435 living alone)), 1,779 female householders (1,465 living alone)), 1,008 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 153 (138 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,882 2-persons, 3,040 3-persons, 3,458 4-persons, 1,797 5-persons, 813 6-persons, 728 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,900 1-person, 684 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 30 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
682 married couples with children.
109 single-parent households (47 men, 62 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 950
| Here: | 12.4% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 233
| Here: | 7.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 345
| Here: | 18.5% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |