Gilmer township, Adams County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Gilmer township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
72% of Gilmer township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 939
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 123
- South: 28
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 407
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 39
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,800
Housing units in Gilmer township with a mortgage: 190 (16 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 103
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Construction (12%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (28%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Private households (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gilmer township:
- German (58.6%)
- United States or American (9.4%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- English (6.5%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 500 (81%)
- Carpooled: 64 (10%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 50 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Other fuel (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (2%)
98.7% of residents of Gilmer township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (23% speak English very well, 77% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,131- In family households: 1,011 (296 male householders, 40 female householders)
304 spouses, 347 children (309 natural, 9 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 120 (43 male householders (42 living alone)), 71 female householders (65 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 149 2-persons, 75 3-persons, 79 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 107 1-person, 7 2-persons,
274 married couples with children.
21 single-parent households (0 men, 21 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 5.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 21.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |