Button township, Ford County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Button township: | 6.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Button township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% 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: 254
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 25
- South: 19
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 115
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $61,500
Housing units in Button township with a mortgage: 35 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 21
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (33%)
- Construction (22%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Warehousing and storage (5%)
- Public administration (24%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (18%)
- Personal and laundry services (14%)
- Health care (9%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (31%)
- Carpenters (22%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (18%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (14%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (7%)
- Business operations specialists (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Button township:
- German (38.6%)
- French (except Basque) (18.8%)
- English (17.4%)
- Swedish (7.2%)
- Irish (3.9%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
- Norwegian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 116 (68%)
- Walked: 26 (15%)
- Other means: 8 (5%)
- Worked at home: 21 (12%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (70%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Wood (6%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Utility gas (4%)
All residents speak only English at home
Household type by relationship:
Households: 321- In family households: 270 (79 male householders, 10 female householders)
54 spouses, 84 children (77 natural, 0 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 51 (26 male householders (21 living alone)), 19 female householders (19 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 37 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 9 4-persons, 18 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 40 1-person, 5 2-persons,
66 married couples with children.
8 single-parent households (2 men, 6 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% |