Maple Valley township, Montcalm County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (28% naturalized citizens)
| Maple Valley township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Maple Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1815
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 139
- South: 52
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
4 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 769
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 132
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,200
Housing units in Maple Valley township with a mortgage: 273 (16 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 153
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Maple Valley township:
- German (26.5%)
- English (13.1%)
- Danish (9.8%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- Dutch (8.8%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- French (except Basque) (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (28%)
- Korea (28%)
- Germany (20%)
- Netherlands (8%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Canada (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 648 (73%)
- Carpooled: 149 (17%)
- Walked: 27 (3%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (47%)
- Utility gas (28%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Wood (9%)
- Other fuel (1%)
4 people in homes for the mentally ill
95.9% of residents of Maple Valley township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 48% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,098- In family households: 1,881 (498 male householders, 75 female householders)
498 spouses, 707 children (618 natural, 33 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 46 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 19 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 217 (98 male householders (78 living alone)), 82 female householders (75 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 266 2-persons, 110 3-persons, 89 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 153 1-person, 19 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 3 5-persons,
457 married couples with children.
103 single-parent households (42 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 66
| Here: | 23.2% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 9.2% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |