Paris township, Edgar County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (85% naturalized citizens)
| Paris township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Paris township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% 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: 7343
- Northeast: 98
- Midwest: 2368
- South: 626
- West: 153
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
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
People in group quarters in Paris township, Illinois:
- 367 people in state prisons
- 165 people in nursing homes
- 28 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,762
- One, attached: 40
- Two: 175
- 3 or 4: 211
- 5 to 9: 66
- 10 to 19: 40
- 20 to 49: 31
- 50 or more: 102
- Mobile homes: 300
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,200
Housing units in Paris township with a mortgage: 1,500 (91 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,291
- Plastics and rubber products (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Paris township:
- United States or American (31.1%)
- German (19.3%)
- Irish (13.2%)
- English (11.5%)
- Dutch (3.0%)
- Italian (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (26%)
- Bolivia (22%)
- Canada (15%)
- Germany (14%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Other Northern Europe (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,665 (80%)
- Carpooled: 707 (15%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 97 (2%)
- Other means: 24 (1%)
- Worked at home: 108 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Paris township, Illinois:
- 367 people in state prisons
- 165 people in nursing homes
- 28 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
97.7% of residents of Paris township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 41% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,084- In family households: 8,247 (2,142 male householders, 633 female householders)
2,225 spouses, 2,776 children (2,527 natural, 92 adopted, 157 stepchildren), 197 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 46 parents, 75 other relatives, 135 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,837 (575 male householders (500 living alone)), 1,018 female householders (917 living alone)), 244 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 613 (572 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,279 2-persons, 621 3-persons, 558 4-persons, 215 5-persons, 92 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,417 1-person, 152 2-persons, 16 3-persons, 8 6-persons,
1,495 married couples with children.
701 single-parent households (186 men, 515 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 115
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 38
| Here: | 21.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |