Whitehall township, Muskegon County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (86% naturalized citizens)
| Whitehall township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Whitehall township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1299
- Northeast: 72
- Midwest: 170
- South: 30
- West: 43
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $140,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Whitehall township, Michigan:
- 25 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 473
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 2
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 3
- Mobile homes: 172
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,700
Housing units in Whitehall township with a mortgage: 272 (16 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 90
- Transportation equipment (16%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Whitehall township:
- German (26.9%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- Dutch (10.6%)
- English (9.4%)
- United States or American (7.6%)
- Swedish (5.2%)
- French (except Basque) (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (57%)
- Ecuador (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 738 (87%)
- Carpooled: 66 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (1%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 21 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Wood (2%)
People in group quarters in Whitehall township, Michigan:
- 25 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in other group homes
97.1% of residents of Whitehall township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,589- In family households: 1,402 (364 male householders, 86 female householders)
405 spouses, 487 children (409 natural, 14 adopted, 64 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 13 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 187 (64 male householders (49 living alone)), 86 female householders (77 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 39 (16 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 205 2-persons, 88 3-persons, 72 4-persons, 59 5-persons, 26 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 126 1-person, 21 2-persons, 2 4-persons, 1 6-persons,
321 married couples with children.
70 single-parent households (21 men, 49 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
| Here: | 13.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 15.5% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |