Garfield township, Grundy County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (54% naturalized citizens)
| Garfield township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Garfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% 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: 1324
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 77
- South: 59
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.6%
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: 504
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 40
- 5 to 9: 13
- 10 to 19: 26
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $95,000
Housing units in Garfield township with a mortgage: 247 (18 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 166
- Construction (28%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Gasoline stations (4%)
- Construction laborers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garfield township:
- German (19.1%)
- Italian (16.9%)
- Irish (14.4%)
- English (9.8%)
- Norwegian (6.7%)
- United States or American (5.9%)
- Danish (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (71%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Germany (6%)
- Spain (6%)
- Other Eastern Europe (6%)
- Canada (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 598 (82%)
- Carpooled: 89 (12%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (3%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 12 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
95.0% of residents of Garfield township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,533- In family households: 1,340 (353 male householders, 73 female householders)
359 spouses, 494 children (447 natural, 18 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 12 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 193 (65 male householders (57 living alone)), 107 female householders (91 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 185 2-persons, 100 3-persons, 87 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 148 1-person, 24 2-persons,
300 married couples with children.
89 single-parent households (23 men, 66 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 2.0% |
| 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: 4
| Here: | 11.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |