Neponset township, Bureau County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Neponset township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Neponset township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 91% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 625
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 55
- South: 33
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 293
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 27
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,500
Housing units in Neponset township with a mortgage: 91 (7 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 101
- Machinery (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (17%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Neponset township:
- English (32.6%)
- German (22.1%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- United States or American (9.1%)
- Swedish (5.4%)
- Scottish (3.7%)
- Norwegian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (36%)
- Laos (23%)
- Mexico (23%)
- Germany (9%)
- Argentina (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 324 (82%)
- Carpooled: 24 (6%)
- Taxi: 1 (0%)
- Bicycle: 7 (2%)
- Walked: 15 (4%)
- Worked at home: 22 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
95.9% of residents of Neponset township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English well, 40% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
2.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (39% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 33% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 762- In family households: 649 (186 male householders, 30 female householders)
191 spouses, 208 children (182 natural, 4 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 4 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 113 (54 male householders (45 living alone)), 37 female householders (31 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 98 2-persons, 55 3-persons, 36 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 76 1-person, 12 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
131 married couples with children.
26 single-parent households (15 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |