Lyman township, Ford County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Lyman township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
73% of Lyman township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 98% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 538
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 45
- South: 12
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $30,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 273
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $77,500
Housing units in Lyman township with a mortgage: 119 (6 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 85
- Construction (14%)
- Truck transportation (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (18%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Construction (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (18%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (15%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lyman township:
- German (42.9%)
- English (15.1%)
- United States or American (10.5%)
- Irish (7.0%)
- French (except Basque) (6.3%)
- Norwegian (3.7%)
- Scottish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Cuba (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 255 (80%)
- Carpooled: 35 (11%)
- Walked: 15 (5%)
- Worked at home: 14 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (75%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Utility gas (2%)
98.1% of residents of Lyman township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 616- In family households: 509 (151 male householders, 20 female householders)
140 spouses, 171 children (144 natural, 2 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 6 other relatives, 3 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 107 (32 male householders (27 living alone)), 62 female householders (58 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 78 2-persons, 42 3-persons, 29 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 85 1-person, 7 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
109 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (4 men, 20 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
Here: | 36.5% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 11.1% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |