Lockport township, St. Joseph County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (80% naturalized citizens)
| Lockport township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Lockport township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2564
- Northeast: 79
- Midwest: 569
- South: 313
- West: 64
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $68,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
4 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,297
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 46
- 10 to 19: 24
- 20 to 49: 4
- 50 or more: 5
- Mobile homes: 151
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,600
Housing units in Lockport township with a mortgage: 637 (64 second mortgage, 76 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 287
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Construction (9%)
- Paper (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (17%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lockport township:
- German (31.1%)
- English (11.2%)
- United States or American (8.2%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Polish (4.9%)
- Italian (4.2%)
- Dutch (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (53%)
- Mexico (20%)
- Other Eastern Africa (17%)
- Jamaica (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,471 (84%)
- Carpooled: 156 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 11 (1%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 19 (1%)
- Worked at home: 79 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (1%)
4 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.0% of residents of Lockport township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (21% speak English very well, 46% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,613- In family households: 3,131 (837 male householders, 210 female householders)
895 spouses, 1,073 children (991 natural, 42 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 37 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 482 (190 male householders (162 living alone)), 212 female householders (173 living alone)), 80 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 471 2-persons, 218 3-persons, 246 4-persons, 104 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 335 1-person, 56 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
721 married couples with children.
260 single-parent households (66 men, 194 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 65
| Here: | 14.4% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 21.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |