Bruce township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Bruce township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
66% of Bruce township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11562
- Northeast: 60
- Midwest: 627
- South: 434
- West: 138
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $36,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
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
People in group quarters in Bruce township, Illinois:
- 88 people in nursing homes
- 36 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 19 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in other group homes
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,540
- One, attached: 23
- Two: 257
- 3 or 4: 301
- 5 to 9: 198
- 10 to 19: 86
- 20 to 49: 25
- 50 or more: 139
- Mobile homes: 311
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,200
Housing units in Bruce township with a mortgage: 1,781 (168 second mortgage, 134 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,688
- Machinery (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bruce township:
- German (23.8%)
- United States or American (14.5%)
- Irish (11.7%)
- Slovak (10.7%)
- English (6.6%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Polish (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (56%)
- Germany (8%)
- Canada (5%)
- Hungary (4%)
- Poland (3%)
- Guatemala (3%)
- Taiwan (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,339 (79%)
- Carpooled: 798 (15%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 46 (1%)
- Walked: 182 (3%)
- Other means: 44 (1%)
- Worked at home: 74 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Bruce township, Illinois:
- 88 people in nursing homes
- 36 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 19 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in other group homes
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in unknown juvenile institutions
94.0% of residents of Bruce township speak English at home.
4.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (30% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,129- In family households: 10,849 (2,672 male householders, 789 female householders)
2,576 spouses, 3,927 children (3,435 natural, 126 adopted, 366 stepchildren), 321 grandchildren, 118 brothers or sisters, 47 parents, 137 other relatives, 262 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,280 (851 male householders (768 living alone)), 1,209 female householders (1,094 living alone)), 220 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 168 (94 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,530 2-persons, 743 3-persons, 651 4-persons, 326 5-persons, 150 6-persons, 61 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,862 1-person, 178 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 6 5-persons,
2,239 married couples with children.
913 single-parent households (240 men, 673 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 245
| Here: | 16.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 40
| Here: | 5.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
| Here: | 10.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |