Shelbyville township, Shelby County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Shelbyville township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Shelbyville 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, 75% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4056
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 362
- South: 184
- West: 97
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $53,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
5 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,841
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 51
- 3 or 4: 78
- 5 to 9: 31
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 25
- 50 or more: 52
- Mobile homes: 123
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,400
Housing units in Shelbyville township with a mortgage: 690 (38 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 576
- Construction (15%)
- Paper (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Paper (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shelbyville township:
- German (34.7%)
- United States or American (22.2%)
- English (11.7%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- European (3.3%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,618 (74%)
- Carpooled: 370 (17%)
- Walked: 59 (3%)
- Other means: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 137 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
5 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
98.6% of residents of Shelbyville township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,743- In family households: 3,974 (1,038 male householders, 298 female householders)
1,056 spouses, 1,365 children (1,215 natural, 37 adopted, 113 stepchildren), 71 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 17 other relatives, 106 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 769 (254 male householders (229 living alone)), 438 female householders (407 living alone)), 77 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 21 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 647 2-persons, 294 3-persons, 220 4-persons, 125 5-persons, 42 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 636 1-person, 43 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
849 married couples with children.
232 single-parent households (59 men, 173 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: 7
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |