Moorland township, Muskegon County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (29% naturalized citizens)
| Moorland township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Moorland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1442
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 79
- South: 53
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $62,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
8 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 468
- One, attached: 7
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 92
Median worth of mobile homes: $63,300
Housing units in Moorland township with a mortgage: 167 (23 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 82
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Moorland township:
- German (22.1%)
- United States or American (12.7%)
- Dutch (9.3%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- English (7.3%)
- French (except Basque) (4.8%)
- Polish (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (62%)
- Colombia (19%)
- Netherlands (10%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 569 (81%)
- Carpooled: 78 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 36 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (66%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Wood (11%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
8 people in homes for the mentally ill
95.8% of residents of Moorland township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,635- In family households: 1,510 (380 male householders, 70 female householders)
383 spouses, 582 children (527 natural, 12 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 8 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 125 (54 male householders (31 living alone)), 45 female householders (43 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 157 2-persons, 96 3-persons, 106 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 74 1-person, 20 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
375 married couples with children.
62 single-parent households (26 men, 36 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 21.1% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |