Laketon township, Muskegon County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (42% naturalized citizens)
Laketon township: | 2.1% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Laketon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6060
- Northeast: 175
- Midwest: 473
- South: 354
- West: 112
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $123,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
4 people in other group homes
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,673
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 30
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 50
Median worth of mobile homes: $127,400
Housing units in Laketon township with a mortgage: 1,481 (96 second mortgage, 259 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 661
- Educational services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (26%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Laketon township:
- German (21.7%)
- Dutch (10.5%)
- English (9.1%)
- Polish (8.3%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- Swedish (6.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (31%)
- Mexico (27%)
- Korea (13%)
- Poland (12%)
- Germany (10%)
- Indonesia (4%)
- Australia (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,288 (90%)
- Carpooled: 178 (5%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 46 (1%)
- Other means: 14 (0%)
- Worked at home: 110 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (85%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
4 people in other group homes
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.4% of residents of Laketon township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,357- In family households: 6,666 (1,754 male householders, 379 female householders)
1,875 spouses, 2,311 children (2,101 natural, 48 adopted, 162 stepchildren), 115 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 28 parents, 30 other relatives, 152 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 691 (253 male householders (201 living alone)), 306 female householders (264 living alone)), 132 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 887 2-persons, 447 3-persons, 483 4-persons, 219 5-persons, 90 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 465 1-person, 71 2-persons, 16 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
1,673 married couples with children.
237 single-parent households (73 men, 164 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 62
Here: | 6.3% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
Here: | 5.9% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 34
Here: | 11.8% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |