Lyons township, Ionia County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Lyons township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Lyons township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3225
- Northeast: 26
- Midwest: 86
- South: 74
- West: 38
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $68,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 988
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 25
- 10 to 19: 27
- Mobile homes: 246
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,800
Housing units in Lyons township with a mortgage: 426 (22 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 287
- Transportation equipment (20%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lyons township:
- German (41.8%)
- United States or American (16.8%)
- English (9.7%)
- Irish (8.4%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
- Polish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Peru (60%)
- Mexico (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,200 (79%)
- Carpooled: 195 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 96 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Wood (4%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.7% of residents of Lyons township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,458- In family households: 3,056 (757 male householders, 168 female householders)
760 spouses, 1,210 children (1,098 natural, 33 adopted, 79 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 26 other relatives, 88 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 402 (171 male householders (140 living alone)), 165 female householders (140 living alone)), 66 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 355 2-persons, 196 3-persons, 208 4-persons, 97 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 280 1-person, 49 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
725 married couples with children.
238 single-parent households (74 men, 164 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 57
| Here: | 12.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 2.2% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |