Wheatland township, Bureau County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Wheatland township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
79% of Wheatland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 96
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 14
- South: 4
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 54
Housing units in Wheatland township with a mortgage: 10 (2 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 9
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (26%)
- Truck transportation (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Construction (8%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Public administration (21%)
- Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores (14%)
- Health care (14%)
- Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (11%)
- Printing and related support activities (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (21%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (15%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (8%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Life, physical, and social science technicians (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (14%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (14%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheatland township:
- English (32.4%)
- Irish (16.2%)
- German (14.7%)
- French (except Basque) (5.9%)
- Russian (5.9%)
- Scottish (5.9%)
- Czech (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 50 (78%)
- Carpooled: 8 (13%)
- Worked at home: 6 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (61%)
- Utility gas (24%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Other fuel (4%)
96.3% of residents of Wheatland township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
1.9% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 116- In family households: 106 (34 male householders, 4 female householders)
33 spouses, 24 children (20 natural, 2 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 0 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 10 (4 male householders (4 living alone)), 6 female householders (6 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 21 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 7 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10 1-person,
18 married couples with children.
4 single-parent households (2 men, 2 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: 1
| Here: | 100.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |