Westfield township, Bureau County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (33% naturalized citizens)
Westfield township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
76% of Westfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 93% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 943
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 69
- South: 22
- West: 5
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $83,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 413
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,300
Housing units in Westfield township with a mortgage: 172 (11 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 104
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Westfield township:
- German (28.6%)
- Italian (19.4%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- Polish (8.6%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
- English (5.3%)
- Norwegian (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (33%)
- Mexico (33%)
- Guatemala (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 471 (86%)
- Carpooled: 40 (7%)
- Walked: 16 (3%)
- Worked at home: 22 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (2%)
96.7% of residents of Westfield township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,051- In family households: 933 (258 male householders, 36 female householders)
252 spouses, 336 children (305 natural, 10 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 1 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 118 (66 male householders (60 living alone)), 45 female householders (45 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 122 2-persons, 59 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 33 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 105 1-person, 3 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
207 married couples with children.
40 single-parent households (11 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
Here: | 0.8% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
Here: | 15.7% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 12.8% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |