Buckhart township, Christian County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Buckhart township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Buckhart township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1653
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 78
- South: 44
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 704
- One, attached: 1
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 13
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 61
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Buckhart township with a mortgage: 304 (10 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 222
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Public administration (13%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (14%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Buckhart township:
- German (29.4%)
- English (19.0%)
- United States or American (18.6%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- Italian (4.1%)
- European (1.7%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other South Central Asia (44%)
- Philippines (44%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 728 (75%)
- Carpooled: 152 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Railroad: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 22 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 55 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
98.0% of residents of Buckhart township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,844- In family households: 1,593 (470 male householders, 88 female householders)
451 spouses, 501 children (453 natural, 12 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 8 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 251 (110 male householders (100 living alone)), 117 female householders (101 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 258 2-persons, 166 3-persons, 83 4-persons, 39 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 201 1-person, 26 2-persons,
324 married couples with children.
78 single-parent households (27 men, 51 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 3.4% |
| 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% |