Mentor township, Oscoda County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (88% naturalized citizens)
| Mentor township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
60% of Mentor township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 33% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1046
- Northeast: 21
- Midwest: 51
- South: 57
- West: 22
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,185
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 13
- 20 to 49: 3
- Mobile homes: 114
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,400
Housing units in Mentor township with a mortgage: 179 (14 second mortgage, 12 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 202
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (18%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (3%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mentor township:
- German (22.4%)
- Polish (12.7%)
- United States or American (12.6%)
- French (except Basque) (11.0%)
- English (9.8%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Swedish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Yugoslavia (24%)
- Mexico (24%)
- Italy (18%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Australia (12%)
- Canada (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 341 (81%)
- Carpooled: 45 (11%)
- Walked: 17 (4%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 18 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Wood (11%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.1% of residents of Mentor township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,219- In family households: 1,015 (304 male householders, 71 female householders)
318 spouses, 260 children (245 natural, 5 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 11 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 204 (75 male householders (68 living alone)), 96 female householders (75 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 236 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 53 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 143 1-person, 22 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
146 married couples with children.
68 single-parent households (18 men, 50 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 2.7% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 3.3% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 40.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |