Ishpeming township, Marquette County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Ishpeming township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
79% of Ishpeming township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 37% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 290
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 219
- South: 29
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
108 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 196
- One, attached: 4
- Mobile homes: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $129,200
Housing units in Ishpeming township with a mortgage: 84 (11 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 37
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (19%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Construction (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (13%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (16%)
- Computer specialists (11%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Accountants and auditors (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ishpeming township:
- German (30.1%)
- United States or American (22.0%)
- Irish (14.3%)
- English (10.4%)
- Polish (7.2%)
- Dutch (4.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (50%)
- Netherlands (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 268 (84%)
- Carpooled: 18 (6%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 29 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Wood (7%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- No fuel used (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
108 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.3% of residents of Ishpeming township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 578- In family households: 544 (162 male householders, 7 female householders)
168 spouses, 198 children (189 natural, 2 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 0 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 34 (17 male householders (16 living alone)), 11 female householders (8 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 70 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 40 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 21 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 24 1-person, 4 2-persons,
638 married couples with children.
129 single-parent households (30 men, 99 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 15.6% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 15.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 50.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |