Columbia township, Tuscola County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Columbia township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
71% of Columbia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1268
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 31
- South: 41
- West: 7
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
8 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
3 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 517
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 11
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,500
Housing units in Columbia township with a mortgage: 209 (8 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 149
- Transportation equipment (20%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (28%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Columbia township:
- German (52.4%)
- English (7.0%)
- French (except Basque) (6.9%)
- United States or American (6.4%)
- Polish (5.9%)
- French Canadian (2.8%)
- Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (38%)
- Germany (14%)
- Netherlands (14%)
- Yugoslavia (14%)
- Vietnam (10%)
- Canada (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 499 (81%)
- Carpooled: 67 (11%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 37 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (1%)
8 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
3 people in nursing homes
95.9% of residents of Columbia township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,385- In family households: 1,250 (361 male householders, 53 female householders)
344 spouses, 450 children (415 natural, 6 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 9 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 135 (67 male householders (63 living alone)), 60 female householders (54 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 187 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 71 4-persons, 54 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 117 1-person, 10 2-persons,
286 married couples with children.
76 single-parent households (17 men, 59 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
| Here: | 19.2% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 3.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |