Arcola township, Douglas County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (19% naturalized citizens)
| Arcola township: | 10.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Arcola township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2520
- Northeast: 26
- Midwest: 216
- South: 204
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
99 people in nursing homes
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,029
- One, attached: 20
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 51
- 5 to 9: 47
- Mobile homes: 103
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,300
Housing units in Arcola township with a mortgage: 491 (27 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 316
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Arcola township:
- German (22.3%)
- United States or American (22.1%)
- English (11.0%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- Italian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (97%)
- Panama (1%)
- United Kingdom (1%)
- Korea (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,171 (74%)
- Carpooled: 203 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 100 (6%)
- Other means: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 81 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
99 people in nursing homes
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
81.3% of residents of Arcola township speak English at home.
14.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (28% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
4.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,242- In family households: 2,906 (830 male householders, 116 female householders)
827 spouses, 986 children (908 natural, 16 adopted, 62 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 17 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 18 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 336 (107 male householders (66 living alone)), 185 female householders (182 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 118 (99 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 415 2-persons, 197 3-persons, 185 4-persons, 107 5-persons, 36 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 248 1-person, 41 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
697 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (17 men, 80 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 61
| Here: | 15.2% |
| 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% |