Gladstone township, Henderson County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Gladstone township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Gladstone township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 449
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 632
- South: 39
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $57,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 1.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 488
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 161
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,000
Housing units in Gladstone township with a mortgage: 158 (14 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 107
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (14%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gladstone township:
- United States or American (30.1%)
- German (22.3%)
- English (12.9%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- Swedish (3.8%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 479 (78%)
- Carpooled: 98 (16%)
- Walked: 16 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 17 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
95.6% of residents of Gladstone township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (17% speak English very well, 83% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,166- In family households: 1,017 (313 male householders, 48 female householders)
288 spouses, 325 children (306 natural, 8 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 7 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 149 (86 male householders (63 living alone)), 40 female householders (40 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 175 2-persons, 92 3-persons, 70 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 103 1-person, 23 2-persons,
169 married couples with children.
45 single-parent households (14 men, 31 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 6.7% |
| 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: 11
| Here: | 22.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |