Patton township, Ford County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Patton township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Patton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 90% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4249
- Northeast: 139
- Midwest: 461
- South: 386
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $54,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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
206 people in nursing homes
31 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,882
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 71
- 3 or 4: 49
- 5 to 9: 42
- 10 to 19: 48
- 20 to 49: 12
- Mobile homes: 97
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,600
Housing units in Patton township with a mortgage: 911 (110 second mortgage, 53 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 516
- Construction (11%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Patton township:
- German (38.8%)
- English (13.0%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- Swedish (8.9%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Norwegian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (22%)
- Germany (20%)
- Yugoslavia (20%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Netherlands (10%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Canada (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,096 (82%)
- Carpooled: 278 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 26 (1%)
- Other means: 38 (1%)
- Worked at home: 104 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
206 people in nursing homes
31 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
97.2% of residents of Patton township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 29% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English not well).
0.3% 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: 5,140- In family households: 4,485 (1,263 male householders, 221 female householders)
1,246 spouses, 1,537 children (1,363 natural, 49 adopted, 125 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 41 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 18 other relatives, 120 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 655 (216 male householders (198 living alone)), 394 female householders (383 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 239 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 690 2-persons, 312 3-persons, 294 4-persons, 128 5-persons, 31 6-persons, 29 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 581 1-person, 20 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
1,018 married couples with children.
279 single-parent households (81 men, 198 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
| Here: | 4.7% |
| 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% |