Shelby charter township, Macomb County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (48% naturalized citizens)
| Shelby charter township: | 9.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Shelby charter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 50043
- Northeast: 1703
- Midwest: 3115
- South: 2540
- West: 939
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $209,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Shelby charter township, Michigan:
- 204 people in nursing homes
- 29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 10 people in other group homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 6 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 16,138
- One, attached: 2,170
- Two: 147
- 3 or 4: 796
- 5 to 9: 1,743
- 10 to 19: 1,662
- 20 to 49: 449
- 50 or more: 579
- Mobile homes: 1,543
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $39,400
Housing units in Shelby charter township with a mortgage: 12,638 (515 second mortgage, 2,646 home equity loan, 35 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,062
- Transportation equipment (24%)
- Construction (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Engineers (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shelby charter township:
- German (18.3%)
- Polish (16.6%)
- Italian (14.7%)
- English (6.8%)
- Irish (6.8%)
- United States or American (4.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (13%)
- Yugoslavia (11%)
- Other Eastern Europe (10%)
- Canada (9%)
- India (8%)
- Germany (5%)
- Poland (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 29,757 (90%)
- Carpooled: 2,097 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 110 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 14 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 4 (0%)
- Taxi: 19 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 13 (0%)
- Bicycle: 34 (0%)
- Walked: 156 (0%)
- Other means: 91 (0%)
- Worked at home: 840 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (93%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Shelby charter township, Michigan:
- 204 people in nursing homes
- 29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 10 people in other group homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 6 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
86.4% of residents of Shelby charter township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
9.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (53% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other language at home (65% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 64,802- In family households: 56,953 (15,337 male householders, 2,696 female householders)
15,487 spouses, 21,077 children (19,579 natural, 524 adopted, 974 stepchildren), 408 grandchildren, 317 brothers or sisters, 496 parents, 502 other relatives, 633 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,849 (3,186 male householders (2,478 living alone)), 3,243 female householders (2,787 living alone)), 1,420 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 268 (212 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,264 2-persons, 4,015 3-persons, 4,137 4-persons, 1,877 5-persons, 552 6-persons, 188 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,265 1-person, 1,024 2-persons, 93 3-persons, 29 4-persons, 18 5-persons,
13,474 married couples with children.
1,976 single-parent households (545 men, 1,431 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 781
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 436
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 456
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |