Foster township, Madison County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (83% naturalized citizens)
Foster township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
68% of Foster township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 31% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3042
- Northeast: 41
- Midwest: 692
- South: 256
- West: 56
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,578
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 10
Housing units in Foster township with a mortgage: 818 (68 second mortgage, 101 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 368
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Petroleum and coal products (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Foster township:
- German (37.8%)
- United States or American (13.3%)
- English (11.1%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Italian (4.7%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (31%)
- Cuba (19%)
- Poland (17%)
- Romania (17%)
- Philippines (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,876 (87%)
- Carpooled: 153 (7%)
- Taxi: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (0%)
- Worked at home: 121 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (2%)
96.8% of residents of Foster township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (53% speak English very well, 47% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,138- In family households: 3,820 (1,159 male householders, 108 female householders)
1,174 spouses, 1,265 children (1,189 natural, 38 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 36 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 318 (141 male householders (120 living alone)), 122 female householders (105 living alone)), 55 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 580 2-persons, 249 3-persons, 300 4-persons, 100 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 225 1-person, 29 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
868 married couples with children.
86 single-parent households (35 men, 51 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 228
Here: | 42.9% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 25
Here: | 9.5% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
Here: | 9.9% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |