Thornapple township, Barry County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (37% naturalized citizens)
Thornapple township: | 1.7% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Thornapple township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5637
- Northeast: 119
- Midwest: 453
- South: 227
- West: 83
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $172,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
9 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,941
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 52
- 3 or 4: 23
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 51
- 20 to 49: 26
- 50 or more: 44
- Mobile homes: 226
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,500
Housing units in Thornapple township with a mortgage: 1,173 (85 second mortgage, 183 home equity loan, 20 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 268
- Construction (13%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thornapple township:
- Dutch (23.8%)
- German (22.4%)
- English (9.7%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- United States or American (6.8%)
- Polish (4.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (22%)
- Mexico (21%)
- Italy (17%)
- Canada (15%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Indonesia (5%)
- France (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,861 (86%)
- Carpooled: 325 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 86 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
9 people in other group homes
96.6% of residents of Thornapple township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,676- In family households: 6,154 (1,512 male householders, 330 female householders)
1,551 spouses, 2,538 children (2,266 natural, 91 adopted, 181 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 23 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 27 other relatives, 117 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 522 (209 male householders (162 living alone)), 239 female householders (214 living alone)), 74 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 640 2-persons, 387 3-persons, 454 4-persons, 241 5-persons, 108 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 376 1-person, 69 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
1,688 married couples with children.
325 single-parent households (104 men, 221 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 109
Here: | 10.9% |
Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 67
Here: | 13.1% |
Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 67
Here: | 23.8% |
Michigan: | 16.5% |