Brookside township, Clinton County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Brookside township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Brookside township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 12% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 90% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4474
- Northeast: 90
- Midwest: 399
- South: 369
- West: 108
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $63,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
People in group quarters in Brookside township, Illinois:
- 1,530 people in state prisons
- 329 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 27 people in nursing homes
- 8 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,168
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 14
- 10 to 19: 8
- 50 or more: 138
- Mobile homes: 413
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,800
Housing units in Brookside township with a mortgage: 441 (17 second mortgage, 64 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 403
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Health care (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Rail transportation (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Printing workers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brookside township:
- German (38.0%)
- United States or American (16.9%)
- English (11.0%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- Italian (4.3%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
- Polish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (62%)
- Germany (15%)
- Philippines (12%)
- El Salvador (7%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,299 (82%)
- Carpooled: 157 (10%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 16 (1%)
- Walked: 21 (1%)
- Other means: 26 (2%)
- Worked at home: 56 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Brookside township, Illinois:
- 1,530 people in state prisons
- 329 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 27 people in nursing homes
- 8 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
96.3% of residents of Brookside township speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (87% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,654- In family households: 2,972 (869 male householders, 162 female householders)
784 spouses, 993 children (864 natural, 34 adopted, 95 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 30 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 23 other relatives, 60 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 682 (175 male householders (153 living alone)), 437 female householders (409 living alone)), 70 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,913 (1,907 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 500 2-persons, 220 3-persons, 196 4-persons, 90 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 562 1-person, 34 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
584 married couples with children.
224 single-parent households (52 men, 172 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 45
| Here: | 10.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 20
| Here: | 8.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |