Wheatfield township, Ingham County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (66% naturalized citizens)
| Wheatfield township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Wheatfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% 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: 1362
- Northeast: 44
- Midwest: 111
- South: 48
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $225,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 577
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 2
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $85,000
Housing units in Wheatfield township with a mortgage: 256 (32 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 63
- Construction (16%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (16%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheatfield township:
- German (23.8%)
- English (18.7%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- United States or American (9.0%)
- Dutch (5.0%)
- Polish (4.1%)
- Italian (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (27%)
- Germany (12%)
- Philippines (12%)
- Brazil (10%)
- Canada (10%)
- Other Eastern Europe (7%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 727 (82%)
- Carpooled: 68 (8%)
- Railroad: 3 (0%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 67 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (54%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Utility gas (14%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (4%)
95.6% of residents of Wheatfield township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,640- In family households: 1,500 (430 male householders, 57 female householders)
427 spouses, 537 children (482 natural, 29 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 19 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 140 (48 male householders (30 living alone)), 55 female householders (40 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 191 2-persons, 120 3-persons, 128 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 70 1-person, 28 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
395 married couples with children.
44 single-parent households (22 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 39
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.8% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |