Alto township, Lee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Alto township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
58% of Alto township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 13% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 93% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 515
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 31
- South: 25
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 203
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Alto township with a mortgage: 104 (3 second mortgage, 12 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 30
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Warehousing and storage (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Radio, TV, and computer stores (5%)
- Educational services (25%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Alto township:
- Norwegian (23.5%)
- German (21.8%)
- Irish (12.9%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- English (7.3%)
- Swedish (3.7%)
- Russian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 242 (87%)
- Carpooled: 6 (2%)
- Bicycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 7 (3%)
- Worked at home: 22 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.7% of residents of Alto township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 585- In family households: 547 (154 male householders, 24 female householders)
153 spouses, 212 children (202 natural, 1 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 38 (21 male householders (18 living alone)), 10 female householders (10 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 85 2-persons, 31 3-persons, 34 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 28 1-person, 3 4-persons,
110 married couples with children.
36 single-parent households (9 men, 27 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: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |