Garden township, Delta County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Garden township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Garden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1269
- Northeast: 57
- Midwest: 67
- South: 72
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $11,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 426
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 6
- Mobile homes: 162
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,500
Housing units in Garden township with a mortgage: 169 (18 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 101
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (51%)
- Construction (15%)
- Food (7%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (3%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (34%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Computer and electronic products (10%)
- Food (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (45%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Registered nurses (16%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (14%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (10%)
- Customer service representatives (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garden township:
- German (28.3%)
- United States or American (13.5%)
- English (13.2%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- Italian (7.2%)
- Polish (5.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 629 (87%)
- Carpooled: 64 (9%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (13%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Other fuel (3%)
95.1% of residents of Garden township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
4.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,487- In family households: 1,311 (364 male householders, 70 female householders)
351 spouses, 466 children (420 natural, 12 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 13 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 176 (61 male householders (48 living alone)), 70 female householders (55 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 194 2-persons, 85 3-persons, 104 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 103 1-person, 20 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
135 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (15 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |