Cheshire township, Allegan County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Cheshire township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Cheshire township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1841
- Northeast: 44
- Midwest: 230
- South: 76
- West: 53
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $96,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 768
- One, attached: 12
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 322
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,800
Housing units in Cheshire township with a mortgage: 196 (8 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 77
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Chemicals (11%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cheshire township:
- German (23.3%)
- English (13.1%)
- United States or American (12.8%)
- Dutch (8.6%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- Polish (6.2%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (25%)
- Germany (21%)
- Yugoslavia (21%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Romania (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 856 (87%)
- Carpooled: 95 (10%)
- Walked: 16 (2%)
- Worked at home: 17 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (59%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Wood (7%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
96.4% of residents of Cheshire township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,285- In family households: 2,013 (539 male householders, 102 female householders)
526 spouses, 718 children (630 natural, 41 adopted, 47 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 26 parents, 12 other relatives, 61 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 272 (110 male householders (78 living alone)), 103 female householders (84 living alone)), 59 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 245 2-persons, 153 3-persons, 165 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 162 1-person, 44 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 3 5-persons,
454 married couples with children.
157 single-parent households (54 men, 103 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 42
| Here: | 12.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 29
| Here: | 41.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |