Orient township, Osceola County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Orient township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Orient 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, 95% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 728
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 25
- South: 26
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
4 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 391
- One, attached: 4
- Mobile homes: 159
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,300
Housing units in Orient township with a mortgage: 63 (3 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 47
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Transportation equipment (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Health care (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Orient township:
- German (26.3%)
- United States or American (14.5%)
- English (12.9%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- Dutch (7.3%)
- French (except Basque) (3.8%)
- Polish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (44%)
- Other Caribbean (33%)
- Austria (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 250 (76%)
- Carpooled: 52 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (2%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 19 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (71%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (10%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Utility gas (3%)
4 people in other group homes
98.4% of residents of Orient township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 802- In family households: 699 (200 male householders, 30 female householders)
186 spouses, 239 children (207 natural, 12 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 1 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 103 (51 male householders (38 living alone)), 39 female householders (37 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 119 2-persons, 42 3-persons, 32 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 75 1-person, 13 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
123 married couples with children.
47 single-parent households (20 men, 27 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
| Here: | 1.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |