Fabius township, St. Joseph County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (66% naturalized citizens)
Fabius township: | 2.4% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Fabius township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2109
- Northeast: 88
- Midwest: 809
- South: 138
- West: 78
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $160,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
17 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,523
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 16
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 191
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,000
Housing units in Fabius township with a mortgage: 525 (47 second mortgage, 76 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 348
- Metal and metal products (19%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Construction (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (9%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (18%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fabius township:
- German (27.1%)
- English (12.8%)
- United States or American (11.0%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- Dutch (7.6%)
- Polish (6.6%)
- Latvian (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (61%)
- Japan (13%)
- Australia (11%)
- Russia (9%)
- Other Eastern Africa (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,479 (88%)
- Carpooled: 118 (7%)
- Walked: 23 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
17 people in other group homes
94.2% of residents of Fabius township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
4.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,291- In family households: 2,934 (914 male householders, 110 female householders)
943 spouses, 859 children (806 natural, 7 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 15 other relatives, 47 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 357 (176 male householders (131 living alone)), 121 female householders (105 living alone)), 60 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 16 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 539 2-persons, 197 3-persons, 163 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 236 1-person, 61 2-persons,
585 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (32 men, 58 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 58
Here: | 16.7% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 4.7% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
Here: | 28.9% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |