Cerro Gordo township, Piatt County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Cerro Gordo township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Cerro Gordo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% 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: 1793
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 179
- South: 108
- West: 58
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 756
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 32
- 10 to 19: 15
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 46
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,000
Housing units in Cerro Gordo township with a mortgage: 350 (24 second mortgage, 23 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 242
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Construction (13%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Rail transportation (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cerro Gordo township:
- German (32.6%)
- United States or American (17.7%)
- English (16.7%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Dutch (3.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Africa (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 877 (83%)
- Carpooled: 82 (8%)
- Walked: 23 (2%)
- Other means: 20 (2%)
- Worked at home: 50 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
98.5% of residents of Cerro Gordo township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,155- In family households: 1,924 (509 male householders, 138 female householders)
497 spouses, 692 children (610 natural, 22 adopted, 60 stepchildren), 37 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 20 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 231 (91 male householders (63 living alone)), 106 female householders (106 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 303 2-persons, 140 3-persons, 129 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 169 1-person, 24 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
446 married couples with children.
120 single-parent households (22 men, 98 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 3.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 13.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |