Bloomingdale township, Van Buren County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Bloomingdale township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Bloomingdale township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2403
- Northeast: 40
- Midwest: 494
- South: 279
- West: 69
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
79 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
59 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,054
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 34
- 10 to 19: 38
- Mobile homes: 306
Median worth of mobile homes: $48,100
Housing units in Bloomingdale township with a mortgage: 307 (37 second mortgage, 70 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 187
- Construction (15%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Paper (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bloomingdale township:
- German (24.0%)
- United States or American (13.9%)
- English (10.0%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- Dutch (6.7%)
- Polish (4.9%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (76%)
- Guatemala (21%)
- Netherlands (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,055 (73%)
- Carpooled: 261 (18%)
- Walked: 42 (3%)
- Other means: 25 (2%)
- Worked at home: 68 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (45%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
79 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
59 people in nursing homes
91.4% of residents of Bloomingdale township speak English at home.
5.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
3.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,205- In family households: 2,820 (681 male householders, 199 female householders)
711 spouses, 975 children (839 natural, 18 adopted, 118 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 30 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 56 other relatives, 129 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 385 (152 male householders (93 living alone)), 141 female householders (125 living alone)), 92 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 138 (66 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 362 2-persons, 201 3-persons, 174 4-persons, 76 5-persons, 51 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 218 1-person, 59 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
648 married couples with children.
179 single-parent households (57 men, 122 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 58
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
| Here: | 0.5% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |