Carlinville township, Macoupin County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (79% naturalized citizens)
| Carlinville township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
54% of Carlinville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5758
- Northeast: 56
- Midwest: 712
- South: 281
- West: 107
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $35,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Carlinville township, Illinois:
- 338 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 260 people in nursing homes
- 42 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,209
- One, attached: 37
- Two: 92
- 3 or 4: 93
- 5 to 9: 113
- 10 to 19: 33
- 20 to 49: 37
- Mobile homes: 197
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,600
Housing units in Carlinville township with a mortgage: 939 (42 second mortgage, 76 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 679
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Carlinville township:
- German (37.1%)
- English (14.8%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- United States or American (8.7%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- Scottish (2.9%)
- European (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Pakistan (32%)
- Other Eastern Europe (29%)
- Canada (21%)
- Korea (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,594 (80%)
- Carpooled: 239 (7%)
- Taxi: 10 (0%)
- Bicycle: 16 (0%)
- Walked: 253 (8%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 143 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Carlinville township, Illinois:
- 338 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 260 people in nursing homes
- 42 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.2% of residents of Carlinville township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,301- In family households: 5,373 (1,415 male householders, 369 female householders)
1,421 spouses, 1,905 children (1,679 natural, 101 adopted, 125 stepchildren), 76 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 38 other relatives, 133 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 928 (326 male householders (297 living alone)), 505 female householders (440 living alone)), 97 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 675 (324 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 843 2-persons, 387 3-persons, 347 4-persons, 142 5-persons, 50 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 737 1-person, 94 2-persons,
1,052 married couples with children.
400 single-parent households (94 men, 306 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 2.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 369
| Here: | 66.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |