Reading township, Livingston County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Reading township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
68% of Reading township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 31% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1981
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 121
- South: 68
- West: 22
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 772
- Mobile homes: 215
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,000
Housing units in Reading township with a mortgage: 280 (38 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 334
- Truck transportation (12%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Construction (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Reading township:
- German (26.5%)
- Slovak (14.4%)
- United States or American (12.8%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- Norwegian (5.4%)
- Italian (4.5%)
- English (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 747 (82%)
- Carpooled: 130 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 27 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (93%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Electricity (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
97.4% of residents of Reading township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,242- In family households: 1,896 (520 male householders, 128 female householders)
507 spouses, 542 children (465 natural, 18 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 55 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 27 other relatives, 78 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 346 (162 male householders (122 living alone)), 133 female householders (128 living alone)), 51 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 323 2-persons, 153 3-persons, 113 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 250 1-person, 37 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
313 married couples with children.
101 single-parent households (35 men, 66 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 21
| Here: | 8.3% |
| 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% |