Amboy township, Lee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Amboy township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Amboy township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2821
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 189
- South: 96
- West: 54
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $46,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
78 people in nursing homes
32 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 931
- One, attached: 34
- Two: 83
- 3 or 4: 90
- 5 to 9: 60
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 112
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Amboy township with a mortgage: 449 (46 second mortgage, 27 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 271
- Food (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Amboy township:
- German (35.0%)
- Irish (25.4%)
- English (9.6%)
- United States or American (7.2%)
- Polish (2.9%)
- Swedish (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (35%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Other Eastern Europe (15%)
- Ecuador (10%)
- Italy (8%)
- Ukraine (8%)
- Netherlands (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,167 (81%)
- Carpooled: 151 (10%)
- Walked: 57 (4%)
- Other means: 21 (1%)
- Worked at home: 53 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
78 people in nursing homes
32 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.9% of residents of Amboy township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,119- In family households: 2,713 (710 male householders, 141 female householders)
693 spouses, 1,006 children (907 natural, 14 adopted, 85 stepchildren), 62 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 12 other relatives, 73 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 406 (132 male householders (109 living alone)), 228 female householders (216 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 111 (79 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 370 2-persons, 179 3-persons, 164 4-persons, 94 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 325 1-person, 32 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
622 married couples with children.
205 single-parent households (68 men, 137 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |