Secord township, Gladwin County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (79% naturalized citizens)
| Secord township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Secord township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 19% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 94% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 986
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 48
- South: 55
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $106,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,100
- Mobile homes: 261
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,100
Housing units in Secord township with a mortgage: 148 (4 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 219
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Construction (13%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Child care workers (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Secord township:
- German (27.8%)
- Polish (11.4%)
- English (10.8%)
- Irish (9.2%)
- United States or American (8.0%)
- French (except Basque) (5.8%)
- French Canadian (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (58%)
- Germany (21%)
- Hungary (11%)
- Poland (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 295 (85%)
- Carpooled: 18 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 22 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (86%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.9% of residents of Secord township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,145- In family households: 960 (300 male householders, 73 female householders)
329 spouses, 190 children (175 natural, 0 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 15 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 185 (81 male householders (70 living alone)), 86 female householders (80 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 275 2-persons, 40 3-persons, 31 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 150 1-person, 15 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
88 married couples with children.
34 single-parent households (8 men, 26 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 5.9% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 11.4% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |