Benzonia township, Benzie County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (81% naturalized citizens)
| Benzonia township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
59% of Benzonia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2235
- Northeast: 80
- Midwest: 259
- South: 131
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Benzonia township, Michigan:
- 39 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 38 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 34 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 5 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,722
- One, attached: 64
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 46
- 5 to 9: 21
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 26
- Mobile homes: 114
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,300
Housing units in Benzonia township with a mortgage: 390 (33 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 352
- Construction (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Food (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Benzonia township:
- German (21.0%)
- English (16.4%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- United States or American (8.4%)
- Polish (4.8%)
- French (except Basque) (4.2%)
- Scottish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (43%)
- Canada (28%)
- Other Eastern Europe (12%)
- Germany (10%)
- Other Southern Europe (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 895 (79%)
- Carpooled: 107 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 50 (4%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 64 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (48%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (5%)
People in group quarters in Benzonia township, Michigan:
- 39 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 38 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 34 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 5 people in other group homes
94.4% of residents of Benzonia township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (45% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (38% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 54% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,708- In family households: 2,181 (620 male householders, 172 female householders)
668 spouses, 636 children (549 natural, 37 adopted, 50 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 15 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 527 (172 male householders (130 living alone)), 257 female householders (227 living alone)), 98 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 119 (54 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 465 2-persons, 145 3-persons, 106 4-persons, 49 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 357 1-person, 53 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
430 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (31 men, 66 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 9.6% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |