Waverly township, Van Buren County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (68% naturalized citizens)
| Waverly township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Waverly township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1871
- Northeast: 27
- Midwest: 284
- South: 168
- West: 37
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
2 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 708
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 6
- Mobile homes: 242
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,700
Housing units in Waverly township with a mortgage: 263 (5 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 105
- Construction (18%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Health care (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Waverly township:
- German (22.5%)
- Dutch (12.4%)
- United States or American (11.8%)
- English (11.3%)
- Irish (6.2%)
- Polish (6.2%)
- Italian (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (20%)
- Poland (17%)
- Korea (16%)
- Netherlands (14%)
- Other Eastern Europe (9%)
- Germany (8%)
- Ukraine (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,020 (83%)
- Carpooled: 150 (12%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 54 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (51%)
- Utility gas (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (5%)
2 people in other group homes
96.3% of residents of Waverly township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (55% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,474- In family households: 2,176 (565 male householders, 120 female householders)
582 spouses, 778 children (665 natural, 26 adopted, 87 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 24 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 298 (107 male householders (79 living alone)), 102 female householders (72 living alone)), 89 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 264 2-persons, 187 3-persons, 123 4-persons, 67 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 151 1-person, 41 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
524 married couples with children.
98 single-parent households (37 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 53
| Here: | 15.3% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 9.0% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 10.4% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |