Eagle township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Eagle township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
73% of Eagle township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1755
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 86
- South: 46
- West: 47
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 670
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 36
- 3 or 4: 7
- 5 to 9: 13
- 10 to 19: 19
- Mobile homes: 23
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,100
Housing units in Eagle township with a mortgage: 340 (2 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 15 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 202
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food (9%)
- Printing and related support activities (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Food (9%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Printing and related support activities (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Eagle township:
- German (23.2%)
- Irish (16.2%)
- Slovak (14.5%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- English (6.9%)
- Polish (5.1%)
- European (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (41%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (24%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Canada (10%)
- Brazil (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 735 (80%)
- Carpooled: 166 (18%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 13 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
96.6% of residents of Eagle township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,967- In family households: 1,757 (489 male householders, 53 female householders)
507 spouses, 647 children (614 natural, 11 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 5 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 210 (63 male householders (44 living alone)), 98 female householders (88 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 228 2-persons, 124 3-persons, 106 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 132 1-person, 22 2-persons, 7 6-persons,
338 married couples with children.
91 single-parent households (26 men, 65 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 54
| Here: | 20.1% |
| 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% |