Rome township, Lenawee County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (14% naturalized citizens)
| Rome township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Rome 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, 80% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1444
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 141
- South: 133
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 587
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 46
Median worth of mobile homes: $66,000
Housing units in Rome township with a mortgage: 193 (18 second mortgage, 37 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 83
- Transportation equipment (17%)
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rome township:
- German (31.9%)
- English (15.6%)
- United States or American (13.8%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- French (except Basque) (4.8%)
- Polish (3.5%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (86%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 783 (87%)
- Carpooled: 67 (7%)
- Ferryboat: 1 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 42 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (39%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Wood (5%)
- Electricity (1%)
96.6% of residents of Rome township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 41% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,761- In family households: 1,636 (444 male householders, 61 female householders)
458 spouses, 604 children (562 natural, 9 adopted, 33 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 11 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 125 (57 male householders (43 living alone)), 49 female householders (47 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 203 2-persons, 96 3-persons, 119 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 90 1-person, 15 2-persons, 1 5-persons,
398 married couples with children.
56 single-parent households (34 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 36.9% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |