Benton township, Eaton County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (77% naturalized citizens)
| Benton township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Benton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2332
- Northeast: 70
- Midwest: 127
- South: 122
- West: 38
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $71,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
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
17 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 888
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 8
- Mobile homes: 101
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,700
Housing units in Benton township with a mortgage: 399 (17 second mortgage, 59 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 113
- Construction (18%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (17%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Art and design workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Benton township:
- German (25.6%)
- United States or American (14.0%)
- English (12.4%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Polish (4.6%)
- French (except Basque) (4.5%)
- Dutch (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (46%)
- Poland (23%)
- Philippines (23%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,190 (85%)
- Carpooled: 134 (10%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 21 (2%)
- Worked at home: 45 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Utility gas (32%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
17 people in other group homes
98.5% of residents of Benton township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,689- In family households: 2,425 (714 male householders, 101 female householders)
661 spouses, 800 children (683 natural, 31 adopted, 86 stepchildren), 51 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 25 other relatives, 51 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 264 (78 male householders (51 living alone)), 94 female householders (71 living alone)), 92 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 17 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 377 2-persons, 171 3-persons, 170 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 122 1-person, 38 2-persons, 4 4-persons, 4 5-persons, 4 6-persons,
510 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (33 men, 71 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 40
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
| Here: | 20.3% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |