Timber township, Peoria County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (15% naturalized citizens)
Timber township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Timber township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2152
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 125
- South: 112
- West: 61
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
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: 898
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 26
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 18
- 20 to 49: 3
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,000
Housing units in Timber township with a mortgage: 386 (33 second mortgage, 98 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 243
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Timber township:
- German (28.6%)
- United States or American (18.2%)
- English (15.1%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
- Swedish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (46%)
- Panama (23%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
- Russia (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,020 (80%)
- Carpooled: 161 (13%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 36 (3%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 52 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Wood (1%)
97.7% of residents of Timber township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,498- In family households: 2,283 (637 male householders, 98 female householders)
678 spouses, 774 children (699 natural, 40 adopted, 35 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 8 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 215 (85 male householders (75 living alone)), 99 female householders (90 living alone)), 31 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 294 2-persons, 196 3-persons, 172 4-persons, 57 5-persons, 16 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 165 1-person, 17 2-persons, 2 5-persons,
470 married couples with children.
87 single-parent households (28 men, 59 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
Here: | 8.4% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
Here: | 3.4% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 9.4% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |