Phillips township, White County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
Phillips township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Phillips township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 761
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 371
- South: 152
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $21,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 459
- Two: 26
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 152
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,500
Housing units in Phillips township with a mortgage: 130 (10 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 157
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (9%)
- Repair and maintenance (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Construction (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Phillips township:
- United States or American (24.7%)
- German (22.7%)
- English (16.0%)
- Irish (14.5%)
- European (4.1%)
- Dutch (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 477 (75%)
- Carpooled: 84 (13%)
- Walked: 20 (3%)
- Other means: 13 (2%)
- Worked at home: 46 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
99.1% of residents of Phillips township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,331- In family households: 1,147 (348 male householders, 74 female householders)
357 spouses, 320 children (257 natural, 13 adopted, 50 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 5 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 184 (68 male householders (53 living alone)), 102 female householders (100 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 251 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 153 1-person, 15 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
216 married couples with children.
61 single-parent households (19 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 3.6% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
Here: | 14.7% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
Here: | 16.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |