Boone township, Boone County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (50% naturalized citizens)
Boone township: | 5.3% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
54% of Boone township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 94% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1243
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 220
- South: 86
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 516
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 13
- 5 to 9: 6
- 10 to 19: 15
- Mobile homes: 43
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,800
Housing units in Boone township with a mortgage: 287 (35 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 98
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Food (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Computer and electronic products (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Boone township:
- German (36.6%)
- Polish (8.6%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
- Norwegian (5.1%)
- English (5.0%)
- Irish (3.8%)
- Swedish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (73%)
- Germany (14%)
- Poland (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 677 (81%)
- Carpooled: 108 (13%)
- Subway or elevated: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 14 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 26 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
84.9% of residents of Boone township speak English at home.
13.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,696- In family households: 1,540 (377 male householders, 83 female householders)
417 spouses, 589 children (530 natural, 13 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 5 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 156 (67 male householders (47 living alone)), 49 female householders (34 living alone)), 40 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 182 2-persons, 115 3-persons, 87 4-persons, 45 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 81 1-person, 31 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
375 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (23 men, 34 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
Here: | 10.7% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.2% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 13.1% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |