Helvetia township, Madison County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Helvetia township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Helvetia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5903
- Northeast: 100
- Midwest: 1139
- South: 462
- West: 110
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $100,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
187 people in nursing homes
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,370
- One, attached: 42
- Two: 200
- 3 or 4: 176
- 5 to 9: 151
- 10 to 19: 136
- 20 to 49: 28
- 50 or more: 80
- Mobile homes: 77
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,300
Housing units in Helvetia township with a mortgage: 1,228 (159 second mortgage, 109 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 767
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Health care (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Construction (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
- Waiters and waitresses (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Helvetia township:
- German (52.7%)
- United States or American (12.6%)
- English (7.3%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- Swiss (5.3%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Italian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (31%)
- Brazil (22%)
- Other Eastern Europe (18%)
- South Africa (16%)
- Germany (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,374 (86%)
- Carpooled: 339 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 48 (1%)
- Walked: 87 (2%)
- Worked at home: 93 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
187 people in nursing homes
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.0% of residents of Helvetia township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,697- In family households: 6,602 (1,845 male householders, 280 female householders)
1,789 spouses, 2,434 children (2,198 natural, 40 adopted, 196 stepchildren), 52 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 45 other relatives, 111 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,095 (357 male householders (319 living alone)), 619 female householders (542 living alone)), 119 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 192 (186 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 944 2-persons, 455 3-persons, 490 4-persons, 164 5-persons, 59 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 861 1-person, 115 2-persons,
1,708 married couples with children.
347 single-parent households (70 men, 277 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 89
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 44
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 32
| Here: | 8.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |