Raccoon township, Marion County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Raccoon township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
66% of Raccoon 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, 65% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1124
- Northeast: 26
- Midwest: 102
- South: 58
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 434
- One, attached: 3
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 108
Median worth of mobile homes: $41,700
Housing units in Raccoon township with a mortgage: 148 (12 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 62
- Educational services (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Raccoon township:
- German (24.2%)
- English (23.6%)
- United States or American (16.9%)
- Irish (14.6%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- Polish (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 655 (90%)
- Carpooled: 58 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (75%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Solar energy (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
99.1% of residents of Raccoon township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European 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: 1,361- In family households: 1,203 (338 male householders, 59 female householders)
343 spouses, 397 children (321 natural, 18 adopted, 58 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 10 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 158 (71 male householders (52 living alone)), 59 female householders (49 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 165 2-persons, 115 3-persons, 81 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 101 1-person, 29 2-persons,
257 married couples with children.
52 single-parent households (17 men, 35 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
Here: | 13.5% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.8% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
Here: | 5.4% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |