Pleasant Hill township, Pike County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (8% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant Hill township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Pleasant Hill township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 947
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 319
- South: 64
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $61,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
23 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 551
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 49
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,000
Housing units in Pleasant Hill township with a mortgage: 162 (11 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 193
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (23%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant Hill township:
- United States or American (33.2%)
- German (20.9%)
- English (12.6%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- French (except Basque) (5.8%)
- Italian (4.0%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- France (69%)
- Laos (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 462 (80%)
- Carpooled: 66 (11%)
- Bicycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (4%)
23 people in nursing homes
98.2% of residents of Pleasant Hill township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,351- In family households: 1,161 (329 male householders, 70 female householders)
313 spouses, 387 children (323 natural, 2 adopted, 62 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 9 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 190 (71 male householders (66 living alone)), 105 female householders (104 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 24 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 194 2-persons, 93 3-persons, 75 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 170 1-person, 2 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
241 married couples with children.
76 single-parent households (30 men, 46 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): 2
| Here: | 2.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 29.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |