Cannon township, Kent County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Cannon township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Cannon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9386
- Northeast: 302
- Midwest: 1331
- South: 523
- West: 263
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $197,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,770
- One, attached: 156
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 122
- 5 to 9: 47
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 40
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Cannon township with a mortgage: 2,457 (217 second mortgage, 496 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 649
- Construction (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Therapists (3%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cannon township:
- German (24.5%)
- Dutch (16.5%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- English (10.6%)
- United States or American (6.4%)
- Polish (6.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (24%)
- Philippines (20%)
- Netherlands (9%)
- Germany (8%)
- Greece (7%)
- India (7%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,357 (88%)
- Carpooled: 381 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 46 (1%)
- Other means: 22 (0%)
- Worked at home: 234 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Wood (1%)
96.7% of residents of Cannon township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (85% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,086- In family households: 11,377 (2,891 male householders, 467 female householders)
3,073 spouses, 4,625 children (4,412 natural, 57 adopted, 156 stepchildren), 67 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 115 other relatives, 101 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 709 (268 male householders (201 living alone)), 303 female householders (238 living alone)), 138 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,119 2-persons, 689 3-persons, 946 4-persons, 425 5-persons, 92 6-persons, 87 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 439 1-person, 127 2-persons, 5 5-persons,
3,667 married couples with children.
351 single-parent households (93 men, 258 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 242
| Here: | 12.9% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 74
| Here: | 7.3% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 83
| Here: | 22.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |