Sullivan township, Muskegon County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (39% naturalized citizens)
| Sullivan township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Sullivan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2320
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 113
- South: 57
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $30,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 871
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $81,000
Housing units in Sullivan township with a mortgage: 403 (17 second mortgage, 57 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 184
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (15%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sullivan township:
- German (17.7%)
- Dutch (13.2%)
- Irish (8.8%)
- Polish (8.6%)
- United States or American (8.0%)
- English (7.5%)
- French (except Basque) (5.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- Germany (22%)
- Japan (20%)
- Netherlands (17%)
- Canada (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,105 (86%)
- Carpooled: 105 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 13 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 32 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (50%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Wood (4%)
- Electricity (3%)
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.3% of residents of Sullivan township speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 28% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,573- In family households: 2,404 (620 male householders, 109 female householders)
622 spouses, 873 children (761 natural, 24 adopted, 88 stepchildren), 59 grandchildren, 23 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 25 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 169 (82 male householders (63 living alone)), 59 female householders (56 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 304 2-persons, 140 3-persons, 159 4-persons, 82 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 119 1-person, 17 2-persons, 5 4-persons,
505 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (38 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 38
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 7.3% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |