Gilead township, Branch County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Gilead township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
59% of Gilead 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, 86% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 251
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 22
- South: 2
- West: 1
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
69 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 79
- Mobile homes: 20
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,000
Housing units in Gilead township with a mortgage: 13 (0 second mortgage, 3 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Life, physical, and social science technicians (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gilead township:
- Norwegian (43.4%)
- German (22.8%)
- Irish (7.0%)
- United States or American (4.8%)
- Swedish (3.5%)
- Czech (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 112 (85%)
- Carpooled: 10 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (1%)
- Walked: 1 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (2%)
- Worked at home: 6 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Wood (26%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Utility gas (5%)
69 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
98.4% of residents of Gilead township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 277- In family households: 254 (58 male householders, 10 female householders)
62 spouses, 109 children (97 natural, 2 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 5 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 23 (16 male householders (16 living alone)), 7 female householders (7 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 17 2-persons, 15 3-persons, 21 4-persons, 6 5-persons, 9 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 23 1-person,
121 married couples with children.
39 single-parent households (16 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 15.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |