Frankfort township, Franklin County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Frankfort township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
63% of Frankfort township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5894
- Northeast: 80
- Midwest: 460
- South: 453
- West: 165
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
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
90 people in nursing homes
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,649
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 105
- 3 or 4: 200
- 5 to 9: 30
- 20 to 49: 11
- 50 or more: 108
- Mobile homes: 224
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,400
Housing units in Frankfort township with a mortgage: 1,000 (63 second mortgage, 83 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 878
- Construction (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Frankfort township:
- United States or American (24.8%)
- German (17.4%)
- English (12.3%)
- Irish (12.2%)
- Italian (5.3%)
- Polish (5.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (26%)
- Canada (16%)
- Iran (12%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Spain (9%)
- Dominican Republic (9%)
- Mexico (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,437 (85%)
- Carpooled: 257 (9%)
- Walked: 54 (2%)
- Other means: 39 (1%)
- Worked at home: 90 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (1%)
90 people in nursing homes
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.8% of residents of Frankfort township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 34% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,032- In family households: 5,887 (1,572 male householders, 469 female householders)
1,597 spouses, 1,939 children (1,769 natural, 69 adopted, 101 stepchildren), 89 grandchildren, 36 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 45 other relatives, 106 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,145 (385 male householders (334 living alone)), 663 female householders (627 living alone)), 97 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 105 (92 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 971 2-persons, 489 3-persons, 403 4-persons, 135 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 961 1-person, 87 2-persons,
1,030 married couples with children.
418 single-parent households (98 men, 320 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 37
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 43
| Here: | 16.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |