Eden township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Eden township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Eden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% 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: 1178
- Northeast: 19
- Midwest: 66
- South: 18
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 539
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 21
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 6
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,000
Housing units in Eden township with a mortgage: 192 (9 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 178
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Eden township:
- German (27.4%)
- Italian (16.8%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Polish (9.1%)
- English (8.5%)
- United States or American (8.1%)
- Scandinavian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (41%)
- Germany (30%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
- Other Central America (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 514 (81%)
- Carpooled: 50 (8%)
- Walked: 28 (4%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 36 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
95.8% of residents of Eden township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (38% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,327- In family households: 1,107 (316 male householders, 67 female householders)
326 spouses, 372 children (328 natural, 2 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 1 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 220 (86 male householders (71 living alone)), 105 female householders (102 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 192 2-persons, 74 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 30 5-persons, 10 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 173 1-person, 14 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
219 married couples with children.
67 single-parent households (25 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 32
| Here: | 19.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 5.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |