Blair township, Clay County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Blair township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
56% of Blair 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, 85% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 589
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 25
- South: 15
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 184
- Mobile homes: 58
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Blair township with a mortgage: 69 (7 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 24
- Construction (15%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (10%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (23%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (13%)
- Computer and electronic products (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (12%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Child care workers (11%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Personal appearance workers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blair township:
- United States or American (52.3%)
- German (19.6%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- European (3.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Welsh (3.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 256 (88%)
- Carpooled: 4 (1%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 18 (6%)
- Worked at home: 13 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (75%)
- Wood (12%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
99.0% of residents of Blair township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 621- In family households: 586 (163 male householders, 22 female householders)
153 spouses, 212 children (124 natural, 12 adopted, 76 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 8 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 35 (28 male householders (28 living alone)), 7 female householders (7 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 18 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 85 2-persons, 45 3-persons, 32 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 35 1-person,
131 married couples with children.
19 single-parent households (3 men, 16 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): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |