Delavan township, Tazewell County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (16% naturalized citizens)
| Delavan township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Delavan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1862
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 139
- South: 121
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $61,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 776
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 24
- 3 or 4: 54
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 4
Housing units in Delavan township with a mortgage: 312 (26 second mortgage, 57 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 300
- Construction (19%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (20%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Delavan township:
- German (39.2%)
- United States or American (14.9%)
- Irish (12.2%)
- English (7.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.6%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (37%)
- Germany (26%)
- Canada (21%)
- Cuba (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 805 (79%)
- Carpooled: 131 (13%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 43 (4%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
98.2% of residents of Delavan township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,211- In family households: 1,924 (534 male householders, 84 female householders)
547 spouses, 661 children (602 natural, 12 adopted, 47 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 21 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 287 (105 male householders (88 living alone)), 139 female householders (130 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 277 2-persons, 144 3-persons, 105 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 218 1-person, 16 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 5 5-persons,
466 married couples with children.
78 single-parent households (19 men, 59 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 5.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 23.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |