Southfield township, Oakland County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (64% naturalized citizens)
| Southfield township: | 8.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Southfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9360
- Northeast: 1140
- Midwest: 1652
- South: 718
- West: 297
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $390,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Southfield township, Michigan:
- 96 people in nursing homes
- 21 people in other group homes
- 20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,239
- One, attached: 292
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 29
- 5 to 9: 161
- 10 to 19: 24
- 20 to 49: 34
- 50 or more: 8
Housing units in Southfield township with a mortgage: 3,619 (179 second mortgage, 562 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,435
- Transportation equipment (17%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Engineers (8%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Lawyers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Southfield township:
- German (16.6%)
- Irish (12.8%)
- English (9.2%)
- Polish (8.6%)
- Italian (6.5%)
- United States or American (5.5%)
- Russian (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (19%)
- Iraq (13%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- France (6%)
- India (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Russia (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,103 (90%)
- Carpooled: 307 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 13 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (0%)
- Other means: 19 (0%)
- Worked at home: 325 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (95%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Southfield township, Michigan:
- 96 people in nursing homes
- 21 people in other group homes
- 20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
91.0% of residents of Southfield township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (84% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 1% speak English not well).
5.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
2.4% of residents speak other language at home (72% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 14,288- In family households: 12,679 (3,539 male householders, 680 female householders)
3,806 spouses, 4,288 children (4,084 natural, 144 adopted, 60 stepchildren), 69 grandchildren, 63 brothers or sisters, 93 parents, 47 other relatives, 94 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,609 (538 male householders (412 living alone)), 856 female householders (806 living alone)), 215 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 142 (106 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,030 2-persons, 814 3-persons, 850 4-persons, 379 5-persons, 127 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,218 1-person, 144 2-persons, 32 3-persons,
3,206 married couples with children.
281 single-parent households (75 men, 206 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 514
| Here: | 29.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 224
| Here: | 30.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 64
| Here: | 17.3% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |