Paw Paw township, Van Buren County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (46% naturalized citizens)
| Paw Paw township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Paw Paw township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5148
- Northeast: 142
- Midwest: 990
- South: 590
- West: 165
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $79,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
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
People in group quarters in Paw Paw township, Michigan:
- 106 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 42 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 12 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 10 people in other workers' dormitories
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,447
- One, attached: 27
- Two: 91
- 3 or 4: 109
- 5 to 9: 229
- 10 to 19: 118
- 20 to 49: 31
- 50 or more: 27
- Mobile homes: 197
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,000
Housing units in Paw Paw township with a mortgage: 1,039 (145 second mortgage, 170 home equity loan, 10 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 539
- Construction (11%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Paw Paw township:
- German (20.4%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Dutch (9.7%)
- Polish (9.0%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- English (7.3%)
- Italian (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (46%)
- Korea (21%)
- Poland (13%)
- Canada (8%)
- Netherlands (6%)
- Colombia (4%)
- Brazil (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,973 (85%)
- Carpooled: 387 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 65 (2%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 35 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Paw Paw township, Michigan:
- 106 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 42 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 12 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 10 people in other workers' dormitories
95.2% of residents of Paw Paw township speak English at home.
3.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,055- In family households: 5,867 (1,531 male householders, 389 female householders)
1,529 spouses, 2,123 children (1,798 natural, 161 adopted, 164 stepchildren), 75 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 18 parents, 56 other relatives, 139 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,188 (384 male householders (298 living alone)), 512 female householders (440 living alone)), 292 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 194 (157 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 892 2-persons, 409 3-persons, 357 4-persons, 178 5-persons, 60 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 738 1-person, 123 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 20 4-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
1,198 married couples with children.
448 single-parent households (112 men, 336 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 87
| Here: | 9.7% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 20
| Here: | 4.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |