Sherman township, Osceola County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (48% naturalized citizens)
| Sherman township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Sherman township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 93% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 908
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 50
- South: 31
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $58,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 1.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
8 people in other group homes
2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 364
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 128
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,000
Housing units in Sherman township with a mortgage: 59 (4 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 40
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Wood products (3%)
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Social assistance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sherman township:
- German (26.2%)
- United States or American (15.9%)
- English (10.4%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Swedish (7.1%)
- Dutch (4.5%)
- French Canadian (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (42%)
- Netherlands (15%)
- Micronesia (12%)
- Germany (6%)
- Italy (6%)
- Ukraine (6%)
- Korea (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 377 (79%)
- Carpooled: 59 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 29 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (64%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (16%)
- Wood (15%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
8 people in other group homes
2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.2% of residents of Sherman township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 44% speak English not well).
2.9% 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: 1,042- In family households: 938 (245 male householders, 47 female householders)
242 spouses, 344 children (290 natural, 26 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 4 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 104 (61 male householders (39 living alone)), 16 female householders (14 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 15 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 117 2-persons, 69 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 53 1-person, 22 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
221 married couples with children.
84 single-parent households (20 men, 64 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 7.4% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 30.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |