Detour township, Chippewa County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Detour township: | 2.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Detour township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 683
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 84
- South: 23
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 688
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 117
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $60,000
Housing units in Detour township with a mortgage: 88 (0 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 145
- Construction (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (11%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Detour township:
- German (14.8%)
- Polish (12.0%)
- English (11.0%)
- French (except Basque) (8.5%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (39%)
- Turkey (26%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Philippines (9%)
- Vietnam (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 202 (70%)
- Carpooled: 37 (13%)
- Ferryboat: 5 (2%)
- Walked: 30 (10%)
- Worked at home: 16 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (40%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (39%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (9%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.7% of residents of Detour township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 849- In family households: 656 (205 male householders, 47 female householders)
220 spouses, 159 children (137 natural, 4 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 3 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 193 (90 male householders (79 living alone)), 70 female householders (65 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 147 2-persons, 52 3-persons, 41 4-persons, 12 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 144 1-person, 13 2-persons, 2 4-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
106 married couples with children.
28 single-parent households (6 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |