Pleasant Plains township, Lake County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant Plains township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of Pleasant Plains township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1192
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 203
- South: 97
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $41,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
18 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,205
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 12
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 38
- Mobile homes: 277
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,000
Housing units in Pleasant Plains township with a mortgage: 180 (5 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 167
- Public administration (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Retail florists (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Health care (10%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Religious workers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant Plains township:
- German (17.5%)
- United States or American (9.2%)
- English (8.0%)
- Irish (6.0%)
- Dutch (5.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- French Canadian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (30%)
- Germany (25%)
- Mexico (20%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
- Netherlands (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 384 (75%)
- Carpooled: 82 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 29 (6%)
- Other means: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 6 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Wood (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Other fuel (2%)
18 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
6 people in other group homes
97.5% of residents of Pleasant Plains township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,512- In family households: 1,185 (265 male householders, 118 female householders)
293 spouses, 371 children (333 natural, 12 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 62 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 20 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 327 (149 male householders (124 living alone)), 132 female householders (115 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 44 (35 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 193 2-persons, 76 3-persons, 43 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 239 1-person, 40 2-persons, 2 5-persons,
170 married couples with children.
153 single-parent households (25 men, 128 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 20.8% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |