Prairie township, Crawford County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (57% naturalized citizens)
Prairie township: | 7.8% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
71% of Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2017
- Northeast: 240
- Midwest: 22
- South: 426
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 909
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 60
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 6
- Mobile homes: 139
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,800
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 420 (23 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 264
- Educational services (12%)
- Petroleum and coal products (10%)
- Food (9%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Food (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (17%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (9%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Bus drivers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- German (17.5%)
- English (12.9%)
- Irish (12.4%)
- United States or American (10.5%)
- Italian (7.3%)
- Welsh (4.1%)
- Scottish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Turkey (43%)
- Philippines (24%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Other Eastern Europe (10%)
- Guyana (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 989 (85%)
- Carpooled: 108 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 5 (0%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 33 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (72%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
95.1% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,749- In family households: 2,402 (597 male householders, 190 female householders)
618 spouses, 810 children (737 natural, 25 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 39 other relatives, 36 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 347 (135 male householders (93 living alone)), 158 female householders (150 living alone)), 54 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 37 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 356 2-persons, 178 3-persons, 149 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 243 1-person, 46 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
123 married couples with children.
12 single-parent households (2 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 32
Here: | 9.7% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 29
Here: | 14.7% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 13.8% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |