Pleasant Grove township, Coles County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant Grove township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Pleasant Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1197
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 72
- South: 64
- West: 69
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $25,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
11 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 500
- One, attached: 17
- Mobile homes: 86
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Pleasant Grove township with a mortgage: 167 (6 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 126
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Health care (10%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (7%)
- Paper (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant Grove township:
- United States or American (23.8%)
- German (20.6%)
- English (13.5%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.6%)
- Danish (6.1%)
- Swedish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (71%)
- Philippines (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 644 (81%)
- Carpooled: 109 (14%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 25 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Utility gas (36%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Wood (5%)
11 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
95.9% of residents of Pleasant Grove township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 41% speak English well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,426- In family households: 1,251 (356 male householders, 74 female householders)
352 spouses, 408 children (372 natural, 33 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 10 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 175 (80 male householders (55 living alone)), 71 female householders (71 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 167 2-persons, 137 3-persons, 88 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 126 1-person, 25 2-persons,
303 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (20 men, 44 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 21
| Here: | 14.1% |
| 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% |