Elk Prairie township, Jefferson County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Elk Prairie township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
72% of Elk Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 610
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 20
- South: 24
- West: 5
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 250
- One, attached: 5
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,200
Housing units in Elk Prairie township with a mortgage: 51 (5 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 89
- Plastics and rubber products (19%)
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Construction laborers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (15%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (12%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elk Prairie township:
- German (20.2%)
- United States or American (15.2%)
- English (13.8%)
- Irish (13.5%)
- Italian (5.6%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- European (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 247 (77%)
- Carpooled: 45 (14%)
- Walked: 19 (6%)
- Worked at home: 8 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (44%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
99.5% of residents of Elk Prairie township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 667- In family households: 560 (186 male householders, 14 female householders)
158 spouses, 168 children (150 natural, 4 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 4 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 107 (47 male householders (39 living alone)), 42 female householders (42 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 106 2-persons, 47 3-persons, 24 4-persons, 23 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 81 1-person, 2 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
104 married couples with children.
27 single-parent households (15 men, 12 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 15.1% |
| 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% |