Bushnell township, McDonough County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Bushnell township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Bushnell township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2938
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 289
- South: 77
- West: 59
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $40,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,176
- Two: 33
- 3 or 4: 82
- 5 to 9: 24
- 50 or more: 14
- Mobile homes: 210
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Bushnell township with a mortgage: 545 (78 second mortgage, 60 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 354
- Metal and metal products (25%)
- Construction (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (3%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (15%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Cashiers (9%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bushnell township:
- United States or American (26.5%)
- German (21.3%)
- Irish (15.5%)
- English (14.7%)
- Dutch (4.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Scottish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,193 (76%)
- Carpooled: 170 (11%)
- Bicycle: 19 (1%)
- Walked: 118 (7%)
- Other means: 23 (1%)
- Worked at home: 51 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
98.5% of residents of Bushnell township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,399- In family households: 2,827 (780 male householders, 164 female householders)
799 spouses, 980 children (857 natural, 13 adopted, 110 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 6 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 572 (188 male householders (133 living alone)), 286 female householders (264 living alone)), 98 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 454 2-persons, 201 3-persons, 192 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 397 1-person, 61 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
565 married couples with children.
211 single-parent households (69 men, 142 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% |