Lovejoy township, Iroquois County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Lovejoy township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Lovejoy township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 95% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 344
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 28
- South: 19
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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: 180
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Lovejoy township with a mortgage: 74 (11 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 65
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (27%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (10%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Construction (6%)
- Food (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (20%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lovejoy township:
- German (29.0%)
- United States or American (21.6%)
- English (12.2%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Swedish (4.9%)
- Italian (4.5%)
- Welsh (3.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 154 (74%)
- Carpooled: 15 (7%)
- Bicycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 13 (6%)
- Other means: 4 (2%)
- Worked at home: 20 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (16%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (1%)
99.2% of residents of Lovejoy township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 404- In family households: 354 (121 male householders, 9 female householders)
119 spouses, 95 children (91 natural, 0 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 50 (22 male householders (18 living alone)), 20 female householders (16 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 77 2-persons, 31 3-persons, 15 4-persons, 7 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 34 1-person, 8 2-persons,
93 married couples with children.
13 single-parent households (5 men, 8 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% |