Chester township, Ottawa County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (60% naturalized citizens)
Chester township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Chester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1020
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 62
- South: 67
- West: 79
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
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
People in group quarters in Chester township, Michigan:
- 72 people in nursing homes
- 56 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 52 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 401
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 14
- 10 to 19: 2
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,200
Housing units in Chester township with a mortgage: 147 (9 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 121
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Construction (14%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chester township:
- German (39.2%)
- United States or American (25.4%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- English (4.6%)
- Norwegian (1.7%)
- French (except Basque) (1.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (60%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (20%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 421 (79%)
- Carpooled: 68 (13%)
- Walked: 33 (6%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 11 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (10%)
People in group quarters in Chester township, Michigan:
- 72 people in nursing homes
- 56 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 52 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.4% of residents of Chester township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (22% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 56% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,250- In family households: 1,108 (280 male householders, 42 female householders)
284 spouses, 476 children (438 natural, 8 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 142 (46 male householders (43 living alone)), 92 female householders (89 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 142 2-persons, 63 3-persons, 42 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 132 1-person, 6 2-persons,
549 married couples with children.
87 single-parent households (23 men, 64 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 52
Here: | 30.1% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 2.9% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
Here: | 28.6% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |