Willow Creek township, Lee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (83% naturalized citizens)
| Willow Creek township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
61% of Willow Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 15% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 607
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 34
- South: 33
- West: 7
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $86,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 233
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $225,000
Housing units in Willow Creek township with a mortgage: 88 (9 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 34
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (26%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Construction (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (12%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (16%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Willow Creek township:
- German (27.1%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- Norwegian (12.6%)
- United States or American (9.4%)
- English (9.1%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- Swedish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (25%)
- Korea (25%)
- Germany (17%)
- Russia (17%)
- Taiwan (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 309 (87%)
- Carpooled: 27 (8%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 16 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (51%)
- Utility gas (33%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (2%)
95.6% of residents of Willow Creek township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (20% speak English very well, 80% speak English well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 704- In family households: 615 (167 male householders, 14 female householders)
143 spouses, 258 children (240 natural, 5 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 4 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 89 (41 male householders (21 living alone)), 22 female householders (22 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 60 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 43 1-person, 14 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
181 married couples with children.
33 single-parent households (10 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 12.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |