Filer charter township, Manistee County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (24% naturalized citizens)
| Filer charter township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Filer charter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% 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: 1943
- Northeast: 45
- Midwest: 155
- South: 58
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $98,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 955
- One, attached: 1
- Two: 20
- 3 or 4: 10
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 8
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $180,000
Housing units in Filer charter township with a mortgage: 298 (16 second mortgage, 56 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 368
- Paper (12%)
- Chemicals (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Filer charter township:
- Polish (36.4%)
- German (21.9%)
- Swedish (6.3%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- English (3.6%)
- United States or American (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (35%)
- Japan (29%)
- Canada (24%)
- Austria (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 817 (83%)
- Carpooled: 97 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (1%)
- Walked: 19 (2%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Wood (1%)
95.3% of residents of Filer charter township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (51% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,238- In family households: 2,010 (586 male householders, 111 female householders)
598 spouses, 640 children (590 natural, 26 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 9 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 228 (87 male householders (72 living alone)), 111 female householders (104 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 360 2-persons, 129 3-persons, 127 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 176 1-person, 13 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
417 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (13 men, 44 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 64
| Here: | 24.8% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |