Gardner township, Sangamon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (52% naturalized citizens)
Gardner township: | 1.5% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Gardner township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3323
- Northeast: 51
- Midwest: 308
- South: 187
- West: 41
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $275,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,304
- One, attached: 49
- Two: 56
- 3 or 4: 20
- 5 to 9: 42
- 10 to 19: 36
- Mobile homes: 78
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,900
Housing units in Gardner township with a mortgage: 833 (130 second mortgage, 103 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 229
- Public administration (22%)
- Construction (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Public administration (25%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Registered nurses (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gardner township:
- German (35.0%)
- Irish (12.6%)
- United States or American (11.2%)
- English (7.3%)
- Italian (7.2%)
- Scottish (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (38%)
- Canada (22%)
- Other Eastern Europe (14%)
- India (14%)
- Armenia (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,050 (88%)
- Carpooled: 184 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 25 (1%)
- Worked at home: 54 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (42%)
- Electricity (15%)
98.6% of residents of Gardner township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,985- In family households: 3,526 (959 male householders, 192 female householders)
1,000 spouses, 1,236 children (1,127 natural, 62 adopted, 47 stepchildren), 47 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 23 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 459 (136 male householders (69 living alone)), 213 female householders (187 living alone)), 110 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 495 2-persons, 216 3-persons, 302 4-persons, 87 5-persons, 43 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 256 1-person, 77 2-persons, 16 3-persons,
922 married couples with children.
126 single-parent households (30 men, 96 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 175
Here: | 32.2% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 69
Here: | 26.8% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |