Blount township, Vermilion County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Blount township: | 5.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Blount township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2492
- Northeast: 71
- Midwest: 370
- South: 166
- West: 84
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $178,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,298
- One, attached: 18
- Two: 16
- 10 to 19: 24
- Mobile homes: 66
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,700
Housing units in Blount township with a mortgage: 646 (58 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 369
- Food (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blount township:
- German (28.0%)
- English (15.0%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- United States or American (10.7%)
- Polish (4.8%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
- Norwegian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (22%)
- Other Western Europe (17%)
- Haiti (12%)
- Egypt (9%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Asia, n.e.c. (6%)
- Mexico (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,365 (84%)
- Carpooled: 191 (12%)
- Walked: 6 (0%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 66 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (51%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
92.4% of residents of Blount township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
4.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,368- In family households: 3,062 (913 male householders, 129 female householders)
966 spouses, 953 children (880 natural, 36 adopted, 37 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 25 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 306 (97 male householders (82 living alone)), 182 female householders (175 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 513 2-persons, 234 3-persons, 187 4-persons, 75 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 257 1-person, 20 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
657 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (36 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 55
| Here: | 12.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 14.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |