Lowell township, Kent County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Lowell township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
70% of Lowell township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2695
- Northeast: 76
- Midwest: 31
- South: 53
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
145 people in nursing homes
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 821
- One, attached: 185
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 15
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,800
Housing units in Lowell township with a mortgage: 386 (30 second mortgage, 79 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 292
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lowell township:
- German (51.4%)
- United States or American (17.2%)
- Irish (5.1%)
- Swiss (3.3%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.2%)
- English (2.2%)
- European (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (30%)
- Romania (22%)
- Ukraine (22%)
- Italy (14%)
- Russia (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,127 (80%)
- Carpooled: 142 (10%)
- Walked: 22 (2%)
- Worked at home: 122 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (59%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Utility gas (11%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
145 people in nursing homes
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
89.7% of residents of Lowell township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (82% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
8.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,913- In family households: 2,581 (685 male householders, 82 female householders)
682 spouses, 1,016 children (951 natural, 20 adopted, 45 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 39 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 332 (147 male householders (113 living alone)), 115 female householders (100 living alone)), 70 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 308 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 166 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 40 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 213 1-person, 40 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 4 5-persons,
1,252 married couples with children.
261 single-parent households (66 men, 195 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 127
| Here: | 32.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
| Here: | 11.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 7.5% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |