Eastern township, Franklin County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Eastern township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
76% of Eastern township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 466
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 31
- South: 12
- West: 5
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 155
- Mobile homes: 68
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,000
Housing units in Eastern township with a mortgage: 23 (2 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 38
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (8%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Health care (36%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Food (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (4%)
- Extraction workers (4%)
- Cashiers (15%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (7%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Eastern township:
- German (28.7%)
- United States or American (25.6%)
- English (12.2%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Scottish (5.5%)
- Polish (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (63%)
- Poland (38%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 179 (84%)
- Carpooled: 20 (9%)
- Walked: 7 (3%)
- Worked at home: 6 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (62%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Wood (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
98.1% of residents of Eastern township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English well, 40% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 528- In family households: 472 (144 male householders, 16 female householders)
137 spouses, 164 children (151 natural, 4 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 6 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 56 (27 male householders (23 living alone)), 24 female householders (24 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 73 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 10 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 47 1-person, 4 2-persons,
99 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (5 men, 19 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% |