Ophir township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Ophir township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
76% of Ophir township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 16% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1458
- Northeast: 66
- Midwest: 45
- South: 175
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 623
- One, attached: 4
- Mobile homes: 93
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,700
Housing units in Ophir township with a mortgage: 286 (26 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 118
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Machinery (12%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (10%)
- Computer and electronic products (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (20%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Other financial specialists (6%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ophir township:
- German (37.4%)
- United States or American (21.6%)
- English (11.4%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- Dutch (5.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 747 (84%)
- Carpooled: 100 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Wood (8%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
98.8% of residents of Ophir township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,770- In family households: 1,599 (492 male householders, 61 female householders)
521 spouses, 507 children (472 natural, 12 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 171 (89 male householders (75 living alone)), 57 female householders (52 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 293 2-persons, 97 3-persons, 112 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 127 1-person, 12 2-persons, 7 4-persons,
137 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (2 men, 12 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |