Maroa township, Macon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (83% naturalized citizens)
Maroa township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Maroa township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1661
- Northeast: 50
- Midwest: 131
- South: 102
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 646
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 47
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 14
- Mobile homes: 131
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Maroa township with a mortgage: 312 (30 second mortgage, 12 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 172
- Construction (9%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Food (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Maroa township:
- German (30.1%)
- English (16.5%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- United States or American (13.5%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
- Polish (2.6%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (22%)
- Austria (17%)
- Japan (17%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (11%)
- Korea (11%)
- Australia (11%)
- Canada (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 885 (86%)
- Carpooled: 107 (10%)
- Bicycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 16 (2%)
- Worked at home: 21 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
97.5% of residents of Maroa township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (47% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island 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: 2,007- In family households: 1,749 (457 male householders, 114 female householders)
478 spouses, 620 children (551 natural, 21 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 6 other relatives, 50 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 258 (88 male householders (83 living alone)), 145 female householders (124 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 268 2-persons, 122 3-persons, 110 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 207 1-person, 23 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
403 married couples with children.
98 single-parent households (28 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 2.0% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
Here: | 7.4% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 9.1% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |