Sharon township, Fayette County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Sharon township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Sharon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 827
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 47
- South: 38
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 322
- Mobile homes: 86
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,800
Housing units in Sharon township with a mortgage: 114 (27 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 74
- Plastics and rubber products (11%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sharon township:
- German (27.2%)
- United States or American (15.6%)
- Irish (15.2%)
- English (14.1%)
- Hungarian (5.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 398 (82%)
- Carpooled: 34 (7%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 50 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (40%)
- Utility gas (40%)
- Wood (12%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Other fuel (2%)
96.2% of residents of Sharon township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
0.9% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 970- In family households: 846 (235 male householders, 47 female householders)
233 spouses, 277 children (224 natural, 10 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 34 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 20 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 124 (41 male householders (26 living alone)), 47 female householders (42 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 122 2-persons, 65 3-persons, 74 4-persons, 21 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 68 1-person, 11 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
201 married couples with children.
49 single-parent households (23 men, 26 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |