Essex township, Stark County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Essex township: | 7.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Essex township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 757
- Northeast: 43
- Midwest: 368
- South: 236
- West: 116
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 630
- One, attached: 8
- 5 to 9: 15
- Mobile homes: 254
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,600
Housing units in Essex township with a mortgage: 204 (6 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 125
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Machinery (12%)
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (12%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Essex township:
- United States or American (21.0%)
- German (16.0%)
- Irish (14.3%)
- English (12.8%)
- French (except Basque) (6.4%)
- Dutch (3.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Taiwan (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 483 (75%)
- Carpooled: 97 (15%)
- Walked: 26 (4%)
- Other means: 14 (2%)
- Worked at home: 23 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (57%)
- Electricity (34%)
- Wood (9%)
96.0% of residents of Essex township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
3.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 25% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,580- In family households: 1,363 (393 male householders, 63 female householders)
389 spouses, 432 children (401 natural, 3 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 12 other relatives, 45 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 217 (75 male householders (44 living alone)), 108 female householders (101 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 223 2-persons, 114 3-persons, 76 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 20 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 145 1-person, 38 2-persons,
120 married couples with children.
20 single-parent households (4 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |