Long Creek township, Macon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Long Creek township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Long Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8459
- Northeast: 229
- Midwest: 1025
- South: 568
- West: 114
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $90,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
14 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,966
- One, attached: 48
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 33
- 5 to 9: 57
- 10 to 19: 68
- 20 to 49: 126
- 50 or more: 45
- Mobile homes: 49
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,200
Housing units in Long Creek township with a mortgage: 2,201 (150 second mortgage, 248 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,350
- Construction (11%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Long Creek township:
- German (31.8%)
- United States or American (17.6%)
- English (14.5%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (23%)
- Philippines (15%)
- Vietnam (10%)
- Germany (9%)
- Korea (6%)
- Yugoslavia (5%)
- Netherlands (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,907 (90%)
- Carpooled: 384 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 16 (0%)
- Bicycle: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (0%)
- Other means: 12 (0%)
- Worked at home: 98 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
14 people in other group homes
97.1% of residents of Long Creek township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (66% speak English very well, 34% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,536- In family households: 9,446 (2,954 male householders, 316 female householders)
2,826 spouses, 2,903 children (2,532 natural, 146 adopted, 225 stepchildren), 142 grandchildren, 54 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 80 other relatives, 144 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,090 (397 male householders (338 living alone)), 577 female householders (526 living alone)), 116 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 14 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,679 2-persons, 690 3-persons, 580 4-persons, 255 5-persons, 42 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 864 1-person, 100 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
1,930 married couples with children.
277 single-parent households (104 men, 173 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 188
| Here: | 14.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 64
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |