Gunplain township, Allegan County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Gunplain township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Gunplain township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 31% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1404
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 336
- South: 312
- West: 84
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
11 people in other workers' dormitories
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 567
- One, attached: 12
- Mobile homes: 307
Median worth of mobile homes: $41,200
Housing units in Gunplain township with a mortgage: 159 (26 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 44
- Construction (16%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Health care (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gunplain township:
- United States or American (27.6%)
- German (18.7%)
- English (12.6%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- French (except Basque) (4.0%)
- Italian (1.7%)
- Norwegian (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 729 (77%)
- Carpooled: 111 (12%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 87 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (55%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Wood (13%)
- Utility gas (2%)
11 people in other workers' dormitories
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.0% of residents of Gunplain township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (47% speak English very well, 53% speak English well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,183- In family households: 1,979 (588 male householders, 49 female householders)
582 spouses, 667 children (561 natural, 61 adopted, 45 stepchildren), 43 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 28 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 204 (96 male householders (75 living alone)), 68 female householders (61 living alone)), 40 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 292 2-persons, 144 3-persons, 99 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 42 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 136 1-person, 21 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
1,224 married couples with children.
246 single-parent households (86 men, 160 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 32
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |