Wade township, Jasper County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Wade township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
72% of Wade township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4183
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 312
- South: 209
- West: 53
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
64 people in nursing homes
9 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,634
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 77
- 3 or 4: 73
- 5 to 9: 54
- 10 to 19: 13
- 20 to 49: 34
- Mobile homes: 253
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,400
Housing units in Wade township with a mortgage: 652 (29 second mortgage, 53 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 505
- Utilities (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wade township:
- German (46.6%)
- United States or American (17.5%)
- English (8.7%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- French (except Basque) (4.1%)
- British (1.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (55%)
- Mexico (45%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,930 (82%)
- Carpooled: 217 (9%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 118 (5%)
- Other means: 21 (1%)
- Worked at home: 53 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
64 people in nursing homes
9 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
97.7% of residents of Wade township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,721- In family households: 4,023 (1,100 male householders, 201 female householders)
1,117 spouses, 1,503 children (1,350 natural, 42 adopted, 111 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 21 other relatives, 64 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 698 (236 male householders (196 living alone)), 400 female householders (384 living alone)), 62 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 72 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 610 2-persons, 283 3-persons, 254 4-persons, 108 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 580 1-person, 49 2-persons, 7 4-persons,
895 married couples with children.
225 single-parent households (62 men, 163 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 105
| Here: | 19.6% |
| 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% |