Colon township, St. Joseph County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Colon township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Colon 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, 49% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2422
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 713
- South: 167
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,349
- One, attached: 31
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 3
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 40
- 20 to 49: 25
- Mobile homes: 274
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,400
Housing units in Colon township with a mortgage: 469 (71 second mortgage, 55 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 277
- Transportation equipment (17%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Colon township:
- German (29.2%)
- United States or American (20.5%)
- English (7.6%)
- Dutch (7.6%)
- Irish (6.6%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.5%)
- Polish (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (19%)
- Philippines (19%)
- Ukraine (15%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Canada (11%)
- Spain (7%)
- Poland (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,074 (70%)
- Carpooled: 224 (15%)
- Subway or elevated: 1 (0%)
- Bicycle: 13 (1%)
- Walked: 37 (2%)
- Other means: 28 (2%)
- Worked at home: 147 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (5%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
88.5% of residents of Colon township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 55% speak English not well).
10.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,406- In family households: 2,979 (791 male householders, 183 female householders)
789 spouses, 1,019 children (921 natural, 19 adopted, 79 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 50 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 14 other relatives, 95 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 427 (173 male householders (140 living alone)), 200 female householders (188 living alone)), 54 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 453 2-persons, 241 3-persons, 160 4-persons, 68 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 328 1-person, 41 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
637 married couples with children.
223 single-parent households (69 men, 154 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 45
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 19.2% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |