Hamilton township, Van Buren County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (28% naturalized citizens)
| Hamilton township: | 7.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Hamilton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1040
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 229
- South: 318
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
189 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
39 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 547
- One, attached: 7
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 164
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,700
Housing units in Hamilton township with a mortgage: 139 (11 second mortgage, 21 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 85
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hamilton township:
- German (23.4%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Dutch (7.8%)
- English (7.5%)
- United States or American (7.0%)
- Polish (5.5%)
- Italian (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (81%)
- Germany (5%)
- Russia (4%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (2%)
- Korea (2%)
- Netherlands (1%)
- Poland (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 617 (85%)
- Carpooled: 51 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 37 (5%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 9 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (49%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Utility gas (13%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
189 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
39 people in unknown juvenile institutions
78.0% of residents of Hamilton township speak English at home.
20.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,565- In family households: 1,374 (337 male householders, 89 female householders)
363 spouses, 481 children (423 natural, 19 adopted, 39 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 11 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 191 (79 male householders (60 living alone)), 70 female householders (63 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 227 (42 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 174 2-persons, 94 3-persons, 73 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 123 1-person, 22 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
309 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (45 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 3.9% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 5.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 14.3% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |