Spring Creek township, Pike County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (80% naturalized citizens)
Spring Creek township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Spring Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 535
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 110
- South: 14
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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: 238
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 59
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,400
Housing units in Spring Creek township with a mortgage: 60 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 66
- Construction (23%)
- Truck transportation (12%)
- Computer and electronic products (9%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (13%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Water transportation (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (24%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Construction laborers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Accountants and auditors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Bus drivers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring Creek township:
- United States or American (39.4%)
- German (21.9%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- Dutch (3.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
- English (2.5%)
- French Canadian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (60%)
- Germany (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 199 (73%)
- Carpooled: 62 (23%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 4 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Wood (12%)
- Electricity (6%)
- No fuel used (1%)
99.1% of residents of Spring Creek township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 689- In family households: 614 (191 male householders, 26 female householders)
157 spouses, 212 children (199 natural, 12 adopted, 1 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 4 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 75 (24 male householders (15 living alone)), 34 female householders (31 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 111 2-persons, 37 3-persons, 44 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 46 1-person, 8 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
128 married couples with children.
41 single-parent households (18 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
Here: | 2.3% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
Here: | 28.9% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 12.5% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |