Grosse Pointe township, Wayne County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (80% naturalized citizens)
| Grosse Pointe township: | 12.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
70% of Grosse Pointe township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1935
- Northeast: 168
- Midwest: 166
- South: 110
- West: 7
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $1,000,001
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.1%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,048
- Two: 6
Housing units in Grosse Pointe township with a mortgage: 517 (11 second mortgage, 87 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 461
- Health care (20%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Top executives (17%)
- Physicians and surgeons (15%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Lawyers (6%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Physicians and surgeons (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grosse Pointe township:
- German (19.0%)
- Italian (12.9%)
- English (9.9%)
- Lebanese (8.1%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- Greek (6.8%)
- Polish (5.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (17%)
- Lebanon (15%)
- Greece (13%)
- Philippines (13%)
- Iran (8%)
- Poland (4%)
- India (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,031 (89%)
- Carpooled: 46 (4%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 26 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 39 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (97%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
81.6% of residents of Grosse Pointe township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
10.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
3.3% of residents speak other language at home (72% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,743- In family households: 2,537 (768 male householders, 71 female householders)
778 spouses, 858 children (846 natural, 12 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 16 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 206 (49 male householders (39 living alone)), 136 female householders (129 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 427 2-persons, 135 3-persons, 145 4-persons, 94 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 168 1-person, 13 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
597 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (12 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 170
| Here: | 51.4% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 35
| Here: | 18.7% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 7.2% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |