Georgetown township, Ottawa County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (64% naturalized citizens)
| Georgetown township: | 2.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
58% of Georgetown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 34489
- Northeast: 777
- Midwest: 3379
- South: 1038
- West: 639
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $115,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Georgetown township, Michigan:
- 317 people in nursing homes
- 125 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 41 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,559
- One, attached: 1,360
- Two: 339
- 3 or 4: 256
- 5 to 9: 559
- 10 to 19: 610
- 20 to 49: 469
- 50 or more: 178
- Mobile homes: 88
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,300
Housing units in Georgetown township with a mortgage: 7,910 (716 second mortgage, 1,605 home equity loan, 16 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,885
- Construction (9%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Georgetown township:
- Dutch (46.1%)
- German (14.3%)
- English (5.9%)
- Irish (5.8%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
- Polish (4.9%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (30%)
- Korea (10%)
- Japan (8%)
- Canada (8%)
- Mexico (5%)
- Cambodia (5%)
- Germany (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 19,458 (91%)
- Carpooled: 1,094 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 23 (0%)
- Walked: 161 (1%)
- Other means: 66 (0%)
- Worked at home: 574 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (92%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Georgetown township, Michigan:
- 317 people in nursing homes
- 125 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 41 people in other group homes
96.2% of residents of Georgetown township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 41,175- In family households: 37,218 (10,076 male householders, 1,176 female householders)
10,213 spouses, 14,949 children (13,628 natural, 604 adopted, 717 stepchildren), 176 grandchildren, 71 brothers or sisters, 83 parents, 228 other relatives, 246 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,957 (1,104 male householders (720 living alone)), 1,709 female householders (1,395 living alone)), 1,144 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 486 (317 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,233 2-persons, 2,088 3-persons, 2,742 4-persons, 1,533 5-persons, 497 6-persons, 159 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,115 1-person, 431 2-persons, 86 3-persons, 181 4-persons,
10,897 married couples with children.
1,048 single-parent households (246 men, 802 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,333
| Here: | 22.4% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 631
| Here: | 20.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 380
| Here: | 13.2% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |