Prairie City township, McDonough County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie City township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Prairie City 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, 53% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 544
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 48
- South: 33
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 1.0% of all households
33 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 202
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 23
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Prairie City township with a mortgage: 59 (2 second mortgage, 1 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 80
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (23%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (7%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Health care (30%)
- Food and beverage stores (27%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Gasoline stations (7%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (21%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Cashiers (25%)
- Registered nurses (15%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Other transportation workers (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie City township:
- United States or American (24.8%)
- German (23.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (16.4%)
- English (11.7%)
- Irish (5.7%)
- Swedish (4.4%)
- Italian (4.2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 206 (79%)
- Carpooled: 28 (11%)
- Walked: 21 (8%)
- Other means: 5 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
33 people in nursing homes
97.7% of residents of Prairie City township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 607- In family households: 574 (134 male householders, 29 female householders)
137 spouses, 213 children (134 natural, 49 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 17 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 33 (13 male householders (9 living alone)), 16 female householders (16 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 33 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 60 2-persons, 28 3-persons, 26 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 25 1-person, 4 2-persons,
120 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (17 men, 14 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |