Garrett township, Douglas County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Garrett township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
73% of Garrett township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1258
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 68
- South: 67
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 459
- One, attached: 3
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 40
- Mobile homes: 80
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Garrett township with a mortgage: 160 (3 second mortgage, 22 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 137
- Construction (17%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garrett township:
- United States or American (31.3%)
- German (29.2%)
- English (12.6%)
- Irish (4.9%)
- French (except Basque) (3.9%)
- Swiss (3.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (64%)
- United Kingdom (18%)
- Pakistan (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 505 (81%)
- Carpooled: 43 (7%)
- Bicycle: 25 (4%)
- Walked: 12 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 30 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
88.3% of residents of Garrett township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
9.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (98% speak English very well, 2% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,440- In family households: 1,300 (331 male householders, 66 female householders)
326 spouses, 522 children (495 natural, 2 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 10 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 140 (69 male householders (60 living alone)), 62 female householders (57 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 188 2-persons, 71 3-persons, 71 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 117 1-person, 14 2-persons,
319 married couples with children.
83 single-parent households (36 men, 47 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
| Here: | 16.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |