Solon township, Kent County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (91% naturalized citizens)
| Solon township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
54% of Solon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4048
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 262
- South: 115
- West: 99
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,165
- One, attached: 6
- 3 or 4: 6
- 10 to 19: 21
- Mobile homes: 565
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,600
Housing units in Solon township with a mortgage: 565 (41 second mortgage, 104 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 169
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Leather and allied products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Solon township:
- German (21.7%)
- Dutch (16.8%)
- United States or American (12.8%)
- English (11.3%)
- Polish (8.6%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Scottish (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (26%)
- Cuba (26%)
- Germany (23%)
- Poland (17%)
- Mexico (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,873 (82%)
- Carpooled: 273 (12%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 23 (1%)
- Worked at home: 95 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (52%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (5%)
- Electricity (3%)
96.4% of residents of Solon township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (42% speak English very well, 58% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,628- In family households: 4,171 (1,103 male householders, 196 female householders)
1,068 spouses, 1,638 children (1,454 natural, 18 adopted, 166 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 26 other relatives, 114 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 457 (190 male householders (162 living alone)), 200 female householders (169 living alone)), 67 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 496 2-persons, 294 3-persons, 279 4-persons, 180 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 331 1-person, 54 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
1,036 married couples with children.
225 single-parent households (79 men, 146 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 37
| Here: | 5.6% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 38
| Here: | 13.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 35
| Here: | 25.9% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |