Elm Grove township, Tazewell County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Elm Grove township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
68% of Elm Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2620
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 225
- South: 169
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
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
21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
16 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 988
- One, attached: 41
- Two: 57
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 43
- 10 to 19: 26
Housing units in Elm Grove township with a mortgage: 497 (60 second mortgage, 57 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 318
- Construction (12%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Finance and insurance (15%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elm Grove township:
- German (49.9%)
- English (12.5%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- United States or American (9.9%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,392 (89%)
- Carpooled: 74 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 77 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (2%)
21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
16 people in homes for the mentally ill
97.5% of residents of Elm Grove township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,010- In family households: 2,658 (722 male householders, 154 female householders)
746 spouses, 924 children (846 natural, 0 adopted, 78 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 31 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 32 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 352 (131 male householders (109 living alone)), 166 female householders (150 living alone)), 55 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 38 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 410 2-persons, 172 3-persons, 174 4-persons, 70 5-persons, 41 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 259 1-person, 28 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
623 married couples with children.
60 single-parent households (20 men, 40 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 7.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |