Erie township, Monroe County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Erie township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Erie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 18% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1358
- Northeast: 97
- Midwest: 3074
- South: 258
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $44,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
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 religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,532
- One, attached: 30
- Two: 47
- 3 or 4: 21
- 5 to 9: 6
- 50 or more: 11
- Mobile homes: 270
Median worth of mobile homes: $48,200
Housing units in Erie township with a mortgage: 851 (86 second mortgage, 182 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 416
- Construction (20%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Erie township:
- German (28.3%)
- French (except Basque) (15.3%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- Polish (9.5%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
- Italian (5.0%)
- English (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (79%)
- Germany (21%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,994 (88%)
- Carpooled: 237 (10%)
- Walked: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 23 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (2%)
5 people in religious group quarters
96.1% of residents of Erie township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,847- In family households: 4,305 (1,144 male householders, 213 female householders)
1,105 spouses, 1,564 children (1,424 natural, 49 adopted, 91 stepchildren), 102 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 60 other relatives, 102 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 542 (237 male householders (194 living alone)), 211 female householders (181 living alone)), 94 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 543 2-persons, 247 3-persons, 352 4-persons, 149 5-persons, 53 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 375 1-person, 59 2-persons, 14 3-persons,
942 married couples with children.
256 single-parent households (78 men, 178 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 114
| Here: | 16.4% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 32
| Here: | 16.8% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |