Orel township, Wayne County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Orel township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Orel township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1308
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 86
- South: 76
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $41,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 468
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 1
- 20 to 49: 28
- Mobile homes: 194
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,400
Housing units in Orel township with a mortgage: 122 (2 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 178
- Truck transportation (12%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Construction (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Retail florists (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Orel township:
- United States or American (43.3%)
- English (15.0%)
- German (13.8%)
- Italian (4.4%)
- Irish (4.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (60%)
- Japan (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 550 (84%)
- Carpooled: 70 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 15 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (3%)
99.2% of residents of Orel township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,493- In family households: 1,267 (321 male householders, 87 female householders)
334 spouses, 457 children (422 natural, 6 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 23 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 226 (62 male householders (55 living alone)), 127 female householders (118 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 167 2-persons, 107 3-persons, 97 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 173 1-person, 7 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
265 married couples with children.
89 single-parent households (26 men, 63 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |