Wheatland township, Fayette County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Wheatland township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
83% of Wheatland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 395
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 20
- South: 8
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 153
- One, attached: 5
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,900
Housing units in Wheatland township with a mortgage: 29 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 22
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Construction (13%)
- Public administration (13%)
- Printing and related support activities (8%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Social assistance (19%)
- Health care (18%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Construction laborers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheatland township:
- German (29.8%)
- United States or American (27.1%)
- English (13.0%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- Dutch (4.1%)
- Lithuanian (1.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (67%)
- United Kingdom (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 165 (75%)
- Carpooled: 24 (11%)
- Worked at home: 30 (14%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (70%)
- Wood (13%)
- Utility gas (10%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
92.8% of residents of Wheatland township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 53% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
2.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 468- In family households: 450 (109 male householders, 27 female householders)
114 spouses, 176 children (152 natural, 0 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 18 (13 male householders (13 living alone)), 5 female householders (5 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 52 2-persons, 51 3-persons, 13 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 18 1-person,
78 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (11 men, 21 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 21
| Here: | 20.6% |
| 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% |