Oakfield township, Kent County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (18% naturalized citizens)
| Oakfield township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of Oakfield 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, 73% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1907
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 73
- South: 619
- West: 43
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 729
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 15
- 5 to 9: 28
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 14
- Mobile homes: 200
Median worth of mobile homes: $35,000
Housing units in Oakfield township with a mortgage: 338 (10 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 113
- Construction (14%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oakfield township:
- German (32.9%)
- United States or American (31.8%)
- English (10.0%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
- Scottish (1.0%)
- Dutch (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (64%)
- Germany (36%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,001 (79%)
- Carpooled: 141 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 27 (2%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 23 (2%)
- Worked at home: 65 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Wood (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.2% of residents of Oakfield township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (27% speak English very well, 57% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,684- In family households: 2,415 (613 male householders, 89 female householders)
634 spouses, 939 children (808 natural, 14 adopted, 117 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 32 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 269 (114 male householders (86 living alone)), 103 female householders (92 living alone)), 52 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 245 2-persons, 179 3-persons, 164 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 178 1-person, 39 2-persons,
1,101 married couples with children.
219 single-parent households (109 men, 110 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 2.1% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |