Porter township, Cass County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Porter township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Porter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 29% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 29% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 903
- Northeast: 80
- Midwest: 2401
- South: 267
- West: 78
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,808
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 19
- Mobile homes: 204
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,500
Housing units in Porter township with a mortgage: 581 (51 second mortgage, 109 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 377
- Transportation equipment (18%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Porter township:
- German (36.1%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- English (10.9%)
- United States or American (7.4%)
- Polish (4.6%)
- Swiss (3.3%)
- French (except Basque) (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (26%)
- United Kingdom (24%)
- Netherlands (21%)
- India (15%)
- Canada (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,621 (79%)
- Carpooled: 277 (14%)
- Walked: 56 (3%)
- Worked at home: 92 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (39%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.8% of residents of Porter township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,794- In family households: 3,359 (967 male householders, 191 female householders)
973 spouses, 1,059 children (918 natural, 19 adopted, 122 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 42 other relatives, 46 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 435 (180 male householders (153 living alone)), 188 female householders (153 living alone)), 67 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 607 2-persons, 229 3-persons, 210 4-persons, 69 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 306 1-person, 62 2-persons,
615 married couples with children.
202 single-parent households (90 men, 112 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 68
| Here: | 15.1% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 29
| Here: | 12.7% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
| Here: | 25.3% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |