New Buffalo township, Berrien County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (62% naturalized citizens)
| New Buffalo township: | 4.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of New Buffalo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 15% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 435
- Northeast: 76
- Midwest: 1596
- South: 206
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $134,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 1.1% of all households
People in group quarters in New Buffalo township, Michigan:
- 17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 10 people in other group homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,989
- One, attached: 27
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 56
- 20 to 49: 11
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 38
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,000
Housing units in New Buffalo township with a mortgage: 397 (28 second mortgage, 45 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 363
- Construction (17%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Health care (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Lawyers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in New Buffalo township:
- German (21.0%)
- Irish (15.4%)
- Polish (8.8%)
- English (8.7%)
- United States or American (8.2%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- Lithuanian (4.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (33%)
- Canada (15%)
- Yugoslavia (12%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (11%)
- Germany (9%)
- Poland (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 936 (80%)
- Carpooled: 101 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Railroad: 9 (1%)
- Taxi: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 77 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (3%)
People in group quarters in New Buffalo township, Michigan:
- 17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 10 people in other group homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
90.0% of residents of New Buffalo township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
8.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,432- In family households: 2,005 (582 male householders, 140 female householders)
621 spouses, 568 children (505 natural, 10 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 35 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 17 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 427 (151 male householders (128 living alone)), 226 female householders (206 living alone)), 50 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 36 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 427 2-persons, 135 3-persons, 94 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 334 1-person, 36 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
329 married couples with children.
70 single-parent households (25 men, 45 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 68
| Here: | 34.3% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 23
| Here: | 29.9% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 33.3% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |