Elwood township, Vermilion County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Elwood township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
68% of Elwood township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 20% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1417
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 117
- South: 60
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $40,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 550
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 12
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 72
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,700
Housing units in Elwood township with a mortgage: 265 (24 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 158
- Construction (15%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elwood township:
- United States or American (38.6%)
- German (12.3%)
- Irish (12.2%)
- English (10.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.6%)
- Italian (4.4%)
- Dutch (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 627 (87%)
- Carpooled: 56 (8%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 28 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
99.3% of residents of Elwood township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,638- In family households: 1,441 (379 male householders, 77 female householders)
382 spouses, 504 children (458 natural, 7 adopted, 39 stepchildren), 69 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 9 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 197 (76 male householders (65 living alone)), 104 female householders (101 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 213 2-persons, 75 3-persons, 96 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 166 1-person, 12 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
320 married couples with children.
86 single-parent households (25 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 11.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 3.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |