Grant township, Vermilion County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Grant township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Grant 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, 54% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5213
- Northeast: 64
- Midwest: 536
- South: 533
- West: 161
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
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
People in group quarters in Grant township, Illinois:
- 308 people in nursing homes
- 51 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,228
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 120
- 3 or 4: 112
- 5 to 9: 69
- 10 to 19: 59
- 20 to 49: 64
- 50 or more: 73
- Mobile homes: 64
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,800
Housing units in Grant township with a mortgage: 955 (81 second mortgage, 99 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 702
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Food (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grant township:
- United States or American (20.6%)
- German (19.1%)
- English (15.3%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Swedish (2.8%)
- Polish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (80%)
- Germany (9%)
- Argentina (6%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,178 (79%)
- Carpooled: 385 (14%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 80 (3%)
- Worked at home: 95 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Grant township, Illinois:
- 308 people in nursing homes
- 51 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
93.2% of residents of Grant township speak English at home.
6.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,276- In family households: 5,364 (1,389 male householders, 344 female householders)
1,374 spouses, 1,997 children (1,741 natural, 48 adopted, 208 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 45 other relatives, 125 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 912 (337 male householders (305 living alone)), 486 female householders (450 living alone)), 89 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 368 (358 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 816 2-persons, 371 3-persons, 309 4-persons, 141 5-persons, 51 6-persons, 45 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 755 1-person, 59 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
1,092 married couples with children.
402 single-parent households (85 men, 317 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 2.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |