Plainfield township, Iosco County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Plainfield township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Plainfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3683
- Northeast: 84
- Midwest: 261
- South: 159
- West: 62
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $72,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,557
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 6
- 10 to 19: 10
- 20 to 49: 13
- Mobile homes: 513
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,100
Housing units in Plainfield township with a mortgage: 452 (30 second mortgage, 55 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 683
- Construction (18%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plainfield township:
- German (20.6%)
- United States or American (12.3%)
- English (11.2%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- French (except Basque) (8.9%)
- Polish (8.1%)
- French Canadian (5.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (35%)
- Other Northern Europe (30%)
- Canada (30%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,012 (80%)
- Carpooled: 151 (12%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 73 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (60%)
- Utility gas (19%)
- Wood (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Electricity (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
6 people in other group homes
97.4% of residents of Plainfield township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,278- In family households: 3,584 (1,091 male householders, 232 female householders)
1,114 spouses, 903 children (775 natural, 16 adopted, 112 stepchildren), 67 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 81 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 694 (299 male householders (260 living alone)), 299 female householders (251 living alone)), 96 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 827 2-persons, 207 3-persons, 146 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 39 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 511 1-person, 76 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
566 married couples with children.
227 single-parent households (64 men, 163 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 4.9% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 20.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |