Friends Creek township, Macon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Friends Creek township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
63% of Friends Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1194
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 112
- South: 60
- West: 46
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 553
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 6
- Mobile homes: 2
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,500
Housing units in Friends Creek township with a mortgage: 296 (21 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 129
- Construction (16%)
- Machinery (14%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Food (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Art and design workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Friends Creek township:
- German (37.6%)
- United States or American (21.1%)
- English (15.9%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- Dutch (2.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
- Italian (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (44%)
- Canada (33%)
- Japan (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 661 (90%)
- Carpooled: 49 (7%)
- Bicycle: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 11 (2%)
- Worked at home: 8 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.9% of residents of Friends Creek township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 62% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,437- In family households: 1,312 (378 male householders, 53 female householders)
376 spouses, 445 children (388 natural, 26 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 4 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 125 (51 male householders (43 living alone)), 66 female householders (66 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 207 2-persons, 84 3-persons, 96 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 109 1-person, 8 2-persons,
307 married couples with children.
58 single-parent households (25 men, 33 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): 3
| Here: | 2.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 19.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |