Mechanicsburg township, Sangamon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (89% naturalized citizens)
| Mechanicsburg township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Mechanicsburg township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1869
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 142
- South: 69
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 682
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 13
- 10 to 19: 31
- Mobile homes: 167
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,300
Housing units in Mechanicsburg township with a mortgage: 298 (33 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 190
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (23%)
- Construction (17%)
- Air transportation (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Extraction workers (7%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Construction laborers (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (14%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Personal appearance workers (7%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mechanicsburg township:
- German (26.0%)
- English (20.3%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- United States or American (10.8%)
- Italian (4.6%)
- French (except Basque) (4.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (39%)
- India (33%)
- Canada (17%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 904 (76%)
- Carpooled: 218 (18%)
- Subway or elevated: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Electricity (7%)
98.4% of residents of Mechanicsburg township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,137- In family households: 1,867 (492 male householders, 121 female householders)
498 spouses, 681 children (583 natural, 32 adopted, 66 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 3 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 270 (105 male householders (86 living alone)), 136 female householders (123 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 245 2-persons, 175 3-persons, 120 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 9 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 209 1-person, 29 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
393 married couples with children.
131 single-parent households (35 men, 96 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |