Thompson township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (62% naturalized citizens)
Thompson township: | 1.8% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
56% of Thompson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 27% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 88% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 389
- Northeast: 26
- Midwest: 130
- South: 11
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $23,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
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: 768
- One, attached: 7
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Thompson township with a mortgage: 81 (5 second mortgage, 22 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 119
- Construction (31%)
- Printing and related support activities (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (23%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Retail florists (9%)
- Health care (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Art and design workers (9%)
- Painters and paperhangers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Construction laborers (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (17%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Art and design workers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Financial managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thompson township:
- German (38.0%)
- English (15.0%)
- Irish (15.0%)
- Italian (6.2%)
- Swedish (4.7%)
- United States or American (4.5%)
- Polish (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (54%)
- Other Western Europe (23%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 141 (66%)
- Carpooled: 31 (15%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (18%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (81%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
99.0% of residents of Thompson township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 609- In family households: 537 (205 male householders, 15 female householders)
228 spouses, 79 children (77 natural, 1 adopted, 1 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 0 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 72 (32 male householders (23 living alone)), 27 female householders (25 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 187 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 15 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 48 1-person, 11 2-persons,
93 married couples with children.
10 single-parent households (3 men, 7 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): 3
Here: | 23.1% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |