Peach Orchard township, Ford County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Peach Orchard township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
71% of Peach Orchard township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 91% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 521
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 55
- South: 30
- West: 3
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $36,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 257
- Two: 5
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,500
Housing units in Peach Orchard township with a mortgage: 92 (9 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 92
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Repair and maintenance (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (22%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Gasoline stations (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (19%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (22%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (14%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Peach Orchard township:
- German (48.9%)
- United States or American (13.7%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- English (5.2%)
- French (except Basque) (4.3%)
- Greek (2.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (57%)
- Mexico (43%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 189 (69%)
- Carpooled: 26 (10%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (6%)
- Worked at home: 39 (14%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
97.3% of residents of Peach Orchard township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% 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: 618- In family households: 551 (148 male householders, 23 female householders)
143 spouses, 185 children (167 natural, 3 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 5 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 67 (28 male householders (28 living alone)), 39 female householders (39 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 74 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 43 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 67 1-person,
126 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (13 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 23.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |