Yellowhead township, Kankakee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (56% naturalized citizens)
Yellowhead township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
68% of Yellowhead township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2099
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 264
- South: 67
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 770
- One, attached: 35
- Two: 48
- 3 or 4: 62
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 24
Median worth of mobile homes: $126,300
Housing units in Yellowhead township with a mortgage: 435 (39 second mortgage, 88 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 178
- Construction (17%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Yellowhead township:
- German (39.8%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Polish (7.7%)
- United States or American (7.7%)
- Italian (6.5%)
- English (4.9%)
- French (except Basque) (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (26%)
- Mexico (26%)
- Ireland (15%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Germany (7%)
- Italy (7%)
- Korea (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,078 (84%)
- Carpooled: 100 (8%)
- Railroad: 38 (3%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 37 (3%)
- Worked at home: 26 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (51%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.0% of residents of Yellowhead township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,556- In family households: 2,316 (638 male householders, 122 female householders)
635 spouses, 826 children (774 natural, 20 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 34 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 240 (76 male householders (54 living alone)), 128 female householders (125 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 326 2-persons, 182 3-persons, 155 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 179 1-person, 19 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
543 married couples with children.
108 single-parent households (23 men, 85 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 21
Here: | 6.3% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
Here: | 17.1% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 9.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |