New Boston township, Mercer County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| New Boston township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
72% of New Boston township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% 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: 820
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 319
- South: 50
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 436
- One, attached: 10
- Mobile homes: 164
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,800
Housing units in New Boston township with a mortgage: 96 (7 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 163
- Construction (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Food (5%)
- Health care (31%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Electricians (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in New Boston township:
- German (24.2%)
- United States or American (23.4%)
- English (10.9%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- Dutch (5.8%)
- Swedish (5.8%)
- French (except Basque) (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 393 (85%)
- Carpooled: 36 (8%)
- Walked: 15 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
97.9% of residents of New Boston township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,216- In family households: 1,043 (291 male householders, 57 female householders)
303 spouses, 354 children (307 natural, 10 adopted, 37 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 173 (92 male householders (79 living alone)), 61 female householders (59 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 163 2-persons, 65 3-persons, 88 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 138 1-person, 15 2-persons,
190 married couples with children.
66 single-parent households (22 men, 44 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 4.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |