Shafter township, Fayette County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Shafter township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
77% of Shafter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 353
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 34
- South: 29
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 155
- One, attached: 5
- Mobile homes: 23
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,000
Housing units in Shafter township with a mortgage: 52 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 32
- Public administration (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (21%)
- Plastics and rubber products (18%)
- Health care (17%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Religious workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cashiers (22%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (12%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shafter township:
- German (42.4%)
- United States or American (16.1%)
- Irish (14.3%)
- English (5.8%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- Greek (3.1%)
- Yugoslavian (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 185 (83%)
- Carpooled: 29 (13%)
- Walked: 5 (2%)
- Worked at home: 3 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (80%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Wood (3%)
All residents speak only English at home
Household type by relationship:
Households: 430- In family households: 390 (116 male householders, 6 female householders)
93 spouses, 150 children (135 natural, 6 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 40 (22 male householders (22 living alone)), 18 female householders (18 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 56 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 34 4-persons, 19 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 40 1-person,
112 married couples with children.
12 single-parent households (5 men, 7 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: 9
| Here: | 22.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |