Mount Vernon township, Jefferson County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (42% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Vernon township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
55% of Mount Vernon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11481
- Northeast: 149
- Midwest: 1256
- South: 1051
- West: 323
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $34,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Mount Vernon township, Illinois:
- 217 people in nursing homes
- 86 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 86 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 60 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 41 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 30 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,907
- One, attached: 77
- Two: 194
- 3 or 4: 358
- 5 to 9: 170
- 10 to 19: 95
- 20 to 49: 80
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 848
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,600
Housing units in Mount Vernon township with a mortgage: 1,621 (165 second mortgage, 147 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,402
- Construction (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Vernon township:
- United States or American (27.3%)
- German (16.4%)
- English (12.3%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Jordan (17%)
- Germany (14%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Panama (11%)
- Other Western Africa (8%)
- Korea (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,028 (80%)
- Carpooled: 684 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (0%)
- Railroad: 4 (0%)
- Taxi: 77 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 46 (1%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 183 (3%)
- Other means: 51 (1%)
- Worked at home: 168 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Mount Vernon township, Illinois:
- 217 people in nursing homes
- 86 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 86 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 60 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 41 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 30 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.7% of residents of Mount Vernon township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 14,001- In family households: 11,480 (2,722 male householders, 1,106 female householders)
2,869 spouses, 4,062 children (3,735 natural, 96 adopted, 231 stepchildren), 214 grandchildren, 61 brothers or sisters, 47 parents, 121 other relatives, 278 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,521 (917 male householders (776 living alone)), 1,208 female householders (1,075 living alone)), 396 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 454 (292 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,761 2-persons, 952 3-persons, 677 4-persons, 280 5-persons, 128 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,851 1-person, 225 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 5 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
2,050 married couples with children.
1,199 single-parent households (233 men, 966 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 71
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 41
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 40
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |