Lake township, Benzie County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (86% naturalized citizens)
| Lake township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 17% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 403
- Northeast: 41
- Midwest: 140
- South: 17
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $237,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,048
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 4
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 9
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $112,500
Housing units in Lake township with a mortgage: 94 (4 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 161
- Construction (14%)
- Health care (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Educational services (26%)
- Health care (15%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (12%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Financial managers (6%)
- Engineers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Art and design workers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lake township:
- German (22.5%)
- English (19.9%)
- Polish (7.9%)
- Dutch (5.2%)
- Irish (5.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.8%)
- French (except Basque) (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (71%)
- Japan (14%)
- Australia (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 154 (83%)
- Carpooled: 9 (5%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 19 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (52%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (5%)
97.4% of residents of Lake township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 626- In family households: 530 (203 male householders, 28 female householders)
217 spouses, 76 children (65 natural, 8 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 96 (28 male householders (28 living alone)), 56 female householders (44 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 191 2-persons, 16 3-persons, 17 4-persons, 6 5-persons, 1 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 72 1-person, 10 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
56 married couples with children.
1 single-parent households (1 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 24.0% |
| 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: 3
| Here: | 21.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |