Blue Ridge township, Piatt County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Blue Ridge township: | 0.1% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Blue Ridge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 88% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1179
- Northeast: 26
- Midwest: 99
- South: 70
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
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: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 525
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 6
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,300
Housing units in Blue Ridge township with a mortgage: 237 (14 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 172
- Construction (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Health care (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Food (3%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blue Ridge township:
- German (34.1%)
- United States or American (18.7%)
- English (18.1%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- Italian (4.0%)
- Dutch (1.7%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 630 (82%)
- Carpooled: 84 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 18 (2%)
- Worked at home: 30 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.4% of residents of Blue Ridge township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,393- In family households: 1,257 (373 male householders, 53 female householders)
376 spouses, 407 children (360 natural, 19 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 5 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 136 (55 male householders (48 living alone)), 69 female householders (64 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 200 2-persons, 100 3-persons, 97 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 112 1-person, 12 2-persons,
272 married couples with children.
53 single-parent households (14 men, 39 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
Here: | 1.4% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 12.5% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |