Dodds township, Jefferson County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Dodds township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Dodds township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2187
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 204
- South: 183
- West: 60
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 699
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 7
- 5 to 9: 22
- 10 to 19: 24
- Mobile homes: 434
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,000
Housing units in Dodds township with a mortgage: 239 (26 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 177
- Plastics and rubber products (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dodds township:
- United States or American (20.6%)
- German (19.4%)
- English (16.1%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- Dutch (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (48%)
- India (19%)
- Germany (15%)
- Panama (11%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,139 (87%)
- Carpooled: 89 (7%)
- Taxi: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 56 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
97.3% of residents of Dodds township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,704- In family households: 2,349 (618 male householders, 150 female householders)
639 spouses, 819 children (771 natural, 12 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 47 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 15 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 355 (151 male householders (135 living alone)), 154 female householders (128 living alone)), 50 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 365 2-persons, 195 3-persons, 119 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 263 1-person, 34 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
501 married couples with children.
112 single-parent households (49 men, 63 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 2.5% |
| 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: 6
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |