Blue Lake township, Kalkaska County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Blue Lake township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Blue Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 15% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 315
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 45
- South: 22
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
2 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 695
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in Blue Lake township with a mortgage: 41 (4 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 99
- Transportation equipment (17%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (9%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (19%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Health care (10%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Cashiers (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Personal appearance workers (6%)
- Other financial specialists (5%)
- Media and communication equipment workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blue Lake township:
- German (28.8%)
- English (14.2%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Polish (8.1%)
- French (except Basque) (7.1%)
- United States or American (4.9%)
- Scottish (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (63%)
- Canada (38%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 88 (68%)
- Carpooled: 26 (20%)
- Walked: 4 (3%)
- Worked at home: 11 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (59%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Wood (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Electricity (1%)
2 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
96.9% of residents of Blue Lake township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 424- In family households: 362 (143 male householders, 9 female householders)
143 spouses, 51 children (49 natural, 0 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 3 other relatives, 1 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 62 (28 male householders (23 living alone)), 24 female householders (19 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 112 2-persons, 26 3-persons, 9 4-persons, 2 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 42 1-person, 10 2-persons,
38 married couples with children.
1 single-parent households (0 men, 1 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |