Wheeler township, Gratiot County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Wheeler township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Wheeler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 93% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2567
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 84
- South: 87
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $57,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 925
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 47
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 18
- 10 to 19: 19
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 115
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Wheeler township with a mortgage: 408 (17 second mortgage, 48 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 215
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheeler township:
- German (33.1%)
- United States or American (13.7%)
- English (11.6%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- French (except Basque) (4.5%)
- Irish (4.5%)
- Scottish (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (65%)
- Korea (35%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,083 (85%)
- Carpooled: 129 (10%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 36 (3%)
- Worked at home: 30 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (3%)
97.0% of residents of Wheeler township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (84% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,807- In family households: 2,490 (638 male householders, 152 female householders)
667 spouses, 952 children (856 natural, 25 adopted, 71 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 21 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 317 (138 male householders (119 living alone)), 143 female householders (130 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 333 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 177 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 33 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 249 1-person, 25 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
552 married couples with children.
167 single-parent households (40 men, 127 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
| Here: | 0.5% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 14.7% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |