Grand Tower township, Jackson County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Grand Tower township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Grand Tower township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 586
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 134
- South: 33
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $20,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 1.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 240
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 16
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 87
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Grand Tower township with a mortgage: 72 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 109
- Utilities (10%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Water transportation (6%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (20%)
- Chemicals (10%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Radio, TV, and computer stores (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Construction laborers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Plant and system operators (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grand Tower township:
- United States or American (39.4%)
- Irish (15.9%)
- German (9.1%)
- French (except Basque) (8.2%)
- English (7.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guatemala (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 225 (81%)
- Carpooled: 18 (6%)
- Walked: 8 (3%)
- Other means: 20 (7%)
- Worked at home: 6 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
99.2% of residents of Grand Tower township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 767- In family households: 668 (181 male householders, 26 female householders)
174 spouses, 232 children (231 natural, 1 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 9 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 99 (39 male householders (35 living alone)), 52 female householders (50 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 84 2-persons, 44 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 85 1-person, 6 2-persons,
136 married couples with children.
40 single-parent households (10 men, 30 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
Here: | 11.7% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
Here: | 30.6% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |