Brookfield township, Eaton County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (40% naturalized citizens)
Brookfield township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
71% of Brookfield 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, 90% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1304
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 45
- South: 41
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 1.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 515
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 60
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Brookfield township with a mortgage: 190 (11 second mortgage, 27 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 74
- Transportation equipment (22%)
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brookfield township:
- German (30.9%)
- United States or American (18.0%)
- English (11.1%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Dutch (4.1%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Swedish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Spain (60%)
- United Kingdom (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 583 (78%)
- Carpooled: 111 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 3 (0%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 40 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (30%)
- Utility gas (10%)
- Wood (4%)
- Electricity (3%)
97.0% of residents of Brookfield township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,429- In family households: 1,268 (355 male householders, 51 female householders)
350 spouses, 426 children (385 natural, 9 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 18 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 161 (73 male householders (64 living alone)), 58 female householders (42 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 189 2-persons, 58 3-persons, 100 4-persons, 45 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 106 1-person, 25 2-persons,
279 married couples with children.
55 single-parent households (22 men, 33 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
Here: | 4.4% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 6.2% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 15.2% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |