Kalamazoo township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Kalamazoo township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
49% of Kalamazoo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 16476
- Northeast: 564
- Midwest: 1971
- South: 1459
- West: 441
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Kalamazoo township, Michigan:
- 120 people in nursing homes
- 35 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 20 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 2 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 2 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,190
- One, attached: 321
- Two: 227
- 3 or 4: 259
- 5 to 9: 449
- 10 to 19: 1,049
- 20 to 49: 548
- 50 or more: 136
- Mobile homes: 692
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,500
Housing units in Kalamazoo township with a mortgage: 3,602 (229 second mortgage, 464 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,737
- Educational services (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Paper (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Computer specialists (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kalamazoo township:
- Dutch (15.0%)
- German (14.8%)
- English (9.7%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- United States or American (7.0%)
- Polish (3.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (15%)
- Other Eastern Europe (12%)
- Japan (8%)
- Egypt (7%)
- Canada (7%)
- Netherlands (5%)
- Mexico (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,158 (85%)
- Carpooled: 944 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 135 (1%)
- Taxi: 21 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 47 (0%)
- Walked: 213 (2%)
- Other means: 16 (0%)
- Worked at home: 234 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Kalamazoo township, Michigan:
- 120 people in nursing homes
- 35 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 20 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 2 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 2 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
94.0% of residents of Kalamazoo township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (66% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (38% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 39% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 21,517- In family households: 16,096 (4,072 male householders, 1,265 female householders)
4,020 spouses, 5,527 children (5,081 natural, 203 adopted, 243 stepchildren), 285 grandchildren, 113 brothers or sisters, 87 parents, 238 other relatives, 489 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,421 (1,668 male householders (1,033 living alone)), 2,359 female householders (1,890 living alone)), 1,394 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 209 (151 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,569 2-persons, 1,095 3-persons, 1,016 4-persons, 415 5-persons, 193 6-persons, 49 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,923 1-person, 886 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 40 4-persons, 19 5-persons,
3,074 married couples with children.
1,323 single-parent households (323 men, 1,000 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 229
| Here: | 10.8% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 136
| Here: | 14.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 192
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |