Big Spring township, Shelby County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Big Spring township: | 1.4% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
82% of Big Spring township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% 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: 725
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 22
- South: 20
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 310
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 22
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in Big Spring township with a mortgage: 97 (7 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 82
- Construction (17%)
- Printing and related support activities (15%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Paper (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Health care (29%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Gasoline stations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Cashiers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Spring township:
- German (45.8%)
- United States or American (29.0%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- English (4.8%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- Swedish (1.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 340 (89%)
- Carpooled: 31 (8%)
- Worked at home: 13 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (80%)
- Wood (8%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Utility gas (2%)
97.6% of residents of Big Spring township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 783- In family households: 756 (225 male householders, 13 female householders)
198 spouses, 294 children (281 natural, 0 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 0 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 27 (17 male householders (17 living alone)), 10 female householders (10 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 134 2-persons, 35 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 27 1-person,
155 married couples with children.
11 single-parent households (4 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 44
Here: | 48.9% |
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: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |