Melrose township, Adams County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Melrose township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Melrose township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4960
- Northeast: 83
- Midwest: 947
- South: 128
- West: 179
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,731
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 19
- 10 to 19: 28
- Mobile homes: 637
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,800
Housing units in Melrose township with a mortgage: 987 (50 second mortgage, 83 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 496
- Construction (14%)
- Computer and electronic products (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Melrose township:
- German (53.9%)
- United States or American (15.9%)
- English (6.7%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- Lithuanian (2.3%)
- European (1.6%)
- Italian (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guatemala (26%)
- Iran (22%)
- El Salvador (16%)
- Other Eastern Europe (14%)
- Syria (14%)
- Canada (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,925 (90%)
- Carpooled: 202 (6%)
- Walked: 30 (1%)
- Other means: 16 (0%)
- Worked at home: 89 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (1%)
97.5% of residents of Melrose township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,369- In family households: 5,798 (1,579 male householders, 265 female householders)
1,514 spouses, 2,072 children (1,898 natural, 42 adopted, 132 stepchildren), 136 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 89 other relatives, 108 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 571 (216 male householders (180 living alone)), 264 female householders (240 living alone)), 91 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 784 2-persons, 409 3-persons, 376 4-persons, 142 5-persons, 103 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 420 1-person, 51 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
1,454 married couples with children.
249 single-parent households (49 men, 200 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 171
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 44
| Here: | 10.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 48
| Here: | 20.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |