Braceville township, Grundy County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (93% naturalized citizens)
Braceville township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
58% of Braceville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4064
- Northeast: 58
- Midwest: 328
- South: 253
- West: 115
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $106,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,392
- One, attached: 159
- Two: 83
- 3 or 4: 59
- 5 to 9: 81
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 18
- Mobile homes: 182
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,600
Housing units in Braceville township with a mortgage: 784 (68 second mortgage, 63 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 395
- Construction (20%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Petroleum and coal products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Braceville township:
- German (23.7%)
- Italian (18.2%)
- Irish (15.5%)
- English (7.2%)
- United States or American (5.1%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- Norwegian (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (46%)
- Mexico (23%)
- France (11%)
- Cambodia (11%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- Netherlands (4%)
- Canada (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,923 (84%)
- Carpooled: 263 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 30 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 50 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
94.8% of residents of Braceville township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,914- In family households: 4,273 (1,099 male householders, 225 female householders)
1,076 spouses, 1,655 children (1,522 natural, 28 adopted, 105 stepchildren), 78 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 31 other relatives, 90 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 641 (268 male householders (214 living alone)), 290 female householders (263 living alone)), 83 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 524 2-persons, 300 3-persons, 277 4-persons, 151 5-persons, 56 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 477 1-person, 78 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
1,018 married couples with children.
247 single-parent households (64 men, 183 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 0.9% |
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: 38
Here: | 22.1% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |