Zeeland charter township, Ottawa County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (49% naturalized citizens)
| Zeeland charter township: | 3.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Zeeland charter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6306
- Northeast: 87
- Midwest: 392
- South: 386
- West: 115
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,561
- One, attached: 145
- Two: 24
- 3 or 4: 51
- 5 to 9: 27
- Mobile homes: 814
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,200
Housing units in Zeeland charter township with a mortgage: 936 (73 second mortgage, 191 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 422
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (10%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Zeeland charter township:
- Dutch (55.7%)
- United States or American (7.9%)
- German (7.7%)
- Polish (2.8%)
- Irish (2.7%)
- English (2.6%)
- Italian (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (23%)
- Netherlands (15%)
- Mexico (11%)
- Canada (8%)
- Korea (7%)
- India (6%)
- Germany (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,448 (90%)
- Carpooled: 253 (7%)
- Bicycle: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (0%)
- Other means: 9 (0%)
- Worked at home: 115 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Wood (2%)
91.7% of residents of Zeeland charter township speak English at home.
5.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
1.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (28% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 44% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,570- In family households: 7,153 (1,883 male householders, 308 female householders)
1,801 spouses, 2,920 children (2,645 natural, 101 adopted, 174 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 60 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 77 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 417 (181 male householders (133 living alone)), 191 female householders (191 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 909 2-persons, 357 3-persons, 475 4-persons, 295 5-persons, 101 6-persons, 54 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 324 1-person, 27 2-persons, 21 3-persons,
2,143 married couples with children.
361 single-parent households (82 men, 279 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 206
| Here: | 18.9% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 103
| Here: | 18.3% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 64
| Here: | 27.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |