Brown township, Manistee County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (20% naturalized citizens)
Brown township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Brown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 33% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 630
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 52
- South: 17
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 336
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 40
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Brown township with a mortgage: 45 (4 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 38
- Construction (19%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Paper (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (13%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brown township:
- German (37.4%)
- United States or American (11.9%)
- Dutch (8.6%)
- Polish (8.0%)
- English (7.5%)
- Swedish (3.6%)
- Irish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 208 (78%)
- Carpooled: 23 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 28 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (59%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Wood (11%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.8% of residents of Brown township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 731- In family households: 631 (177 male householders, 24 female householders)
175 spouses, 222 children (190 natural, 6 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 6 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 100 (45 male householders (36 living alone)), 37 female householders (36 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 18 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 98 2-persons, 44 3-persons, 31 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 72 1-person, 9 2-persons, 1 6-persons,
122 married couples with children.
37 single-parent households (19 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
Here: | 9.1% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
Here: | 22.2% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 33.3% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |