Mound township, Effingham County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (95% naturalized citizens)
Mound township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
50% of Mound township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2111
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 284
- South: 298
- West: 163
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $91,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
87 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 904
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 34
- 5 to 9: 28
- 10 to 19: 4
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $111,600
Housing units in Mound township with a mortgage: 529 (103 second mortgage, 48 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 185
- Transportation equipment (31%)
- Construction (12%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (16%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mound township:
- German (38.3%)
- Irish (13.9%)
- United States or American (13.2%)
- English (9.8%)
- European (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (30%)
- Mexico (20%)
- Canada (15%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (10%)
- Korea (10%)
- Indonesia (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,163 (87%)
- Carpooled: 113 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 16 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 38 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
87 people in nursing homes
97.9% of residents of Mound township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (29% speak English very well, 71% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,871- In family households: 2,658 (633 male householders, 176 female householders)
700 spouses, 1,053 children (924 natural, 46 adopted, 83 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 24 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 213 (74 male householders (64 living alone)), 126 female householders (124 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 42 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 313 2-persons, 178 3-persons, 171 4-persons, 100 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 188 1-person, 12 2-persons,
701 married couples with children.
209 single-parent households (46 men, 163 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
Here: | 1.8% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 1.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
Here: | 19.2% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |