West Bloomfield township, Oakland County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 19 (61% naturalized citizens)
| West Bloomfield township: | 18.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of West Bloomfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 40168
- Northeast: 3789
- Midwest: 4623
- South: 2689
- West: 884
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $266,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in West Bloomfield township, Michigan:
- 599 people in nursing homes
- 75 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 51 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 47 people in other group homes
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 18,396
- One, attached: 2,916
- Two: 199
- 3 or 4: 819
- 5 to 9: 1,148
- 10 to 19: 384
- 20 to 49: 59
- 50 or more: 435
- Mobile homes: 30
Median worth of mobile homes: $515,600
Housing units in West Bloomfield township with a mortgage: 15,052 (912 second mortgage, 2,360 home equity loan, 97 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,933
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (14%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Health care (10%)
- Construction (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Physicians and surgeons (6%)
- Lawyers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Bloomfield township:
- Russian (8.9%)
- Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac (8.2%)
- German (8.1%)
- Polish (7.8%)
- English (5.8%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
- Irish (5.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Iraq (23%)
- Japan (10%)
- India (8%)
- Canada (6%)
- Russia (5%)
- Korea (3%)
- Other Eastern Europe (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 28,027 (89%)
- Carpooled: 1,789 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 62 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 162 (1%)
- Other means: 89 (0%)
- Worked at home: 1,272 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (94%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in West Bloomfield township, Michigan:
- 599 people in nursing homes
- 75 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 51 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 47 people in other group homes
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
75.5% of residents of West Bloomfield township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
8.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
4.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
9.3% of residents speak other language at home (71% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 64,024- In family households: 58,135 (15,646 male householders, 2,571 female householders)
16,780 spouses, 20,963 children (19,844 natural, 567 adopted, 552 stepchildren), 367 grandchildren, 302 brothers or sisters, 488 parents, 587 other relatives, 431 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,889 (2,356 male householders (1,961 living alone)), 2,813 female householders (2,567 living alone)), 720 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 780 (590 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,503 2-persons, 3,787 3-persons, 4,051 4-persons, 1,869 5-persons, 765 6-persons, 242 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 4,528 1-person, 558 2-persons, 71 3-persons, 11 4-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
15,137 married couples with children.
1,431 single-parent households (311 men, 1,120 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,407
| Here: | 17.4% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 543
| Here: | 13.5% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 456
| Here: | 19.1% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |