Champion Township (Michigan)

Marquette County

26-14540

Champion Township is a township in Marquette County in the state of Michigan.

Geography

Champion Township has a total area of ​​323.7 km ², of which 313.2 km ² land area and 10.5 km ² ( 3.23% ) of water. The municipality is located in a small valley near the eastern end of Lake Michigamme in the north -central part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Located about 30 miles west of Marquette on U.S. Highway 41 and Michigan State Route 28, the small, quiet village in the late 1800s and early 1900s was a bustling iron mining settlement of 2500 inhabitants.

Demography

In the municipality there were in 2010 297 inhabitants, 126 households, and 91 families. The population density was 0.9 inhabitants / km ². The ethnic composition of the community is made up 99.33 % White and 0.67 % African American. 29.4 % were of Finnish, 18.6% French, 11.7% German, 11.3% Canadian, 7.8% Polish and 5.2% English ancestry.

23.8 % of the population consisted of families with children under the age of 18, 55.6 % married couples, 19.8 % of all households were single-person households.

The age structure of the population was made up to 20.9% under the age of 18, to 7.4% from 18 to 24 years to 22.9% of 25-44 year olds to 34.0% from 45 to 64 -year-old and 14.8 % were 65 years or older. The average age was 44 years. For every 100 females were 112.1 men for every 100 women aged 18 years were 104.3 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $ 33,571, and the median income for a family was $ 33,214. Males had a median income of $ 30,000, $ women of $ 14,375. The per capita income for the parish was $ 17,396. About 11.0 % of families and 12.3 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.5% of those aged 18 years and no one age 65 or older.

Sons and daughters of the city

• Charles Van Riper (1905-1994), American speech therapist and founder of the American Speech Therapy
• Joseph Keith Symons ( born 1932 ), Catholic bishop