Poplar Grove township, Boone County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (70% naturalized citizens)
Poplar Grove township: | 3.0% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
48% of Poplar Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2373
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 442
- South: 124
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $119,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 847
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 18
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 193
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,900
Housing units in Poplar Grove township with a mortgage: 499 (96 second mortgage, 128 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 92
- Construction (11%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Poplar Grove township:
- German (28.2%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Italian (8.2%)
- Polish (7.5%)
- Swedish (6.1%)
- English (5.6%)
- Norwegian (4.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (41%)
- Philippines (15%)
- Germany (14%)
- South Africa (13%)
- Yugoslavia (7%)
- Guatemala (7%)
- Korea (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,138 (81%)
- Carpooled: 120 (9%)
- Railroad: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 25 (2%)
- Other means: 37 (3%)
- Worked at home: 72 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
90.5% of residents of Poplar Grove township speak English at home.
7.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 34% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,116- In family households: 2,889 (733 male householders, 116 female householders)
761 spouses, 1,084 children (968 natural, 39 adopted, 77 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 43 parents, 26 other relatives, 72 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 227 (101 male householders (81 living alone)), 93 female householders (87 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 275 2-persons, 196 3-persons, 218 4-persons, 87 5-persons, 55 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 168 1-person, 22 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 5-persons,
818 married couples with children.
162 single-parent households (48 men, 114 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 74
Here: | 13.7% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
Here: | 7.1% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
Here: | 18.7% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |