Otsego township, Allegan County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Otsego township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
59% of Otsego township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4152
- Northeast: 60
- Midwest: 318
- South: 213
- West: 108
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,406
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 43
- 3 or 4: 21
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 342
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 23
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,200
Housing units in Otsego township with a mortgage: 672 (50 second mortgage, 104 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 256
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Construction (11%)
- Paper (10%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (11%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Otsego township:
- German (24.2%)
- Dutch (15.2%)
- English (13.8%)
- United States or American (13.6%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- Polish (3.9%)
- Italian (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (37%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (37%)
- Sweden (13%)
- India (8%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,187 (86%)
- Carpooled: 217 (9%)
- Walked: 22 (1%)
- Other means: 27 (1%)
- Worked at home: 96 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (5%)
- Electricity (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.9% of residents of Otsego township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 37% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (30% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 35% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,879- In family households: 4,356 (1,148 male householders, 212 female householders)
1,201 spouses, 1,593 children (1,276 natural, 37 adopted, 280 stepchildren), 68 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 33 other relatives, 79 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 523 (213 male householders (116 living alone)), 173 female householders (161 living alone)), 137 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 20 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 558 2-persons, 290 3-persons, 294 4-persons, 158 5-persons, 43 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 277 1-person, 85 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
986 married couples with children.
242 single-parent households (69 men, 173 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 56
| Here: | 9.6% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 4.2% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |