Yorktown township, Henry County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Yorktown township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
79% of Yorktown 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, 100% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 368
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 39
- South: 0
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $106,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 164
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 4
Housing units in Yorktown township with a mortgage: 45 (0 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 42
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (26%)
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Health care (27%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Social assistance (10%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (21%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Registered nurses (12%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Yorktown township:
- German (42.3%)
- Swedish (9.6%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- Belgian (7.4%)
- English (7.1%)
- Norwegian (4.2%)
- Dutch (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 125 (63%)
- Carpooled: 35 (18%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (3%)
- Worked at home: 30 (15%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (45%)
- Utility gas (44%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (3%)
97.4% of residents of Yorktown township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 420- In family households: 379 (106 male householders, 16 female householders)
119 spouses, 127 children (121 natural, 0 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 41 (16 male householders (16 living alone)), 22 female householders (20 living alone)), 3 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 60 2-persons, 20 3-persons, 22 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 36 1-person, 2 2-persons,
92 married couples with children.
5 single-parent households (1 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 10.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 15.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |