St. Joseph charter township, Berrien County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (68% naturalized citizens)
| St. Joseph charter township: | 4.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of St. Joseph charter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6057
- Northeast: 402
- Midwest: 2169
- South: 838
- West: 196
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $175,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
4 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,845
- One, attached: 179
- Two: 36
- 3 or 4: 77
- 5 to 9: 71
- 10 to 19: 26
- 20 to 49: 9
- 50 or more: 58
Housing units in St. Joseph charter township with a mortgage: 2,352 (251 second mortgage, 426 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,121
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in St. Joseph charter township:
- German (27.3%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- English (8.6%)
- United States or American (6.2%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- Polish (4.3%)
- Dutch (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (16%)
- Poland (11%)
- India (9%)
- Chile (8%)
- Other Eastern Europe (7%)
- Iran (5%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,352 (88%)
- Carpooled: 309 (6%)
- Railroad: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (1%)
- Other means: 30 (1%)
- Worked at home: 175 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (91%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
4 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
92.6% of residents of St. Joseph charter township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
3.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (66% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (32% speak English very well, 68% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,172- In family households: 8,896 (2,557 male householders, 469 female householders)
2,692 spouses, 2,770 children (2,589 natural, 42 adopted, 139 stepchildren), 120 grandchildren, 49 brothers or sisters, 61 parents, 104 other relatives, 74 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,276 (449 male householders (366 living alone)), 646 female householders (593 living alone)), 181 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,493 2-persons, 611 3-persons, 575 4-persons, 257 5-persons, 64 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 959 1-person, 121 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 9 4-persons,
1,917 married couples with children.
311 single-parent households (61 men, 250 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 286
| Here: | 22.1% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 112
| Here: | 19.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 58
| Here: | 21.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |