Knight Prairie township, Hamilton County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Knight Prairie township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Knight Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 391
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 71
- South: 22
- West: 29
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 194
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 48
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,000
Housing units in Knight Prairie township with a mortgage: 31 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 41
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (24%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Gasoline stations (6%)
- Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Fuel dealers (6%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Public administration (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (24%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (23%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (12%)
- Other transportation workers (6%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (18%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Accountants and auditors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (8%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (8%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Knight Prairie township:
- Irish (25.2%)
- German (22.6%)
- Swedish (12.0%)
- United States or American (11.3%)
- English (6.6%)
- Lithuanian (3.3%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 183 (83%)
- Carpooled: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (4%)
- Worked at home: 26 (12%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (63%)
- Utility gas (16%)
- Wood (9%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
93.0% of residents of Knight Prairie township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
6.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 526- In family households: 487 (157 male householders, 15 female householders)
160 spouses, 128 children (119 natural, 0 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 12 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 39 (28 male householders (28 living alone)), 11 female householders (11 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 85 2-persons, 40 3-persons, 23 4-persons, 24 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 39 1-person,
104 married couples with children.
10 single-parent households (1 men, 9 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |