Quincy township, Adams County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Quincy township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
55% of Quincy township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 29586
- Northeast: 676
- Midwest: 7063
- South: 1517
- West: 867
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Quincy township, Illinois:
- 1,428 people in nursing homes
- 538 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 108 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 76 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 55 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 44 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 39 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 23 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 23 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 18 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 15 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 9 people in other group homes
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the physically handicapped
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 12,063
- One, attached: 635
- Two: 1,579
- 3 or 4: 1,264
- 5 to 9: 817
- 10 to 19: 390
- 20 to 49: 166
- 50 or more: 489
- Mobile homes: 588
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,100
Housing units in Quincy township with a mortgage: 5,743 (375 second mortgage, 532 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,987
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Quincy township:
- German (44.7%)
- United States or American (13.1%)
- Irish (9.2%)
- English (8.4%)
- Italian (2.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (15%)
- Germany (12%)
- Canada (11%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (9%)
- Sweden (8%)
- Laos (7%)
- Philippines (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 15,632 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,730 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 137 (1%)
- Taxi: 24 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 12 (0%)
- Bicycle: 99 (1%)
- Walked: 678 (4%)
- Other means: 77 (0%)
- Worked at home: 425 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (17%)
People in group quarters in Quincy township, Illinois:
- 1,428 people in nursing homes
- 538 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 108 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 76 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 55 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 44 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 39 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 23 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 23 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 18 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 15 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 9 people in other group homes
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the physically handicapped
97.2% of residents of Quincy township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 1% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 37,889- In family households: 30,650 (7,822 male householders, 2,320 female householders)
7,912 spouses, 10,826 children (9,898 natural, 229 adopted, 699 stepchildren), 405 grandchildren, 252 brothers or sisters, 171 parents, 275 other relatives, 667 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,239 (2,519 male householders (2,068 living alone)), 3,808 female householders (3,472 living alone)), 912 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,388 (1,632 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,662 2-persons, 2,367 3-persons, 1,823 4-persons, 909 5-persons, 305 6-persons, 76 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,540 1-person, 680 2-persons, 74 3-persons, 18 4-persons, 15 5-persons,
6,039 married couples with children.
2,551 single-parent households (470 men, 2,081 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,004
| Here: | 22.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 470
| Here: | 20.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,051
| Here: | 50.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |