Galesburg township, Knox County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Galesburg township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
79% of Galesburg township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% 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: 340
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 55
- South: 12
- West: 5
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
8 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 136
- 3 or 4: 7
- 5 to 9: 32
- 10 to 19: 4
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 27
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Galesburg township with a mortgage: 73 (17 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 23
- Construction (15%)
- Rail transportation (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Finance and insurance (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Wood products (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (8%)
- U. S. Postal service (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Construction laborers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Legal support workers (6%)
- Physicians and surgeons (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (17%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (12%)
- Financial managers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Business operations specialists (8%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (8%)
- Postsecondary teachers (8%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Galesburg township:
- United States or American (24.8%)
- German (24.2%)
- English (16.5%)
- Swedish (11.3%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Arab/Arabic (2.4%)
- Czechoslovakian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Syria (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 209 (96%)
- Worked at home: 8 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Other fuel (4%)
8 people in homes for the mentally ill
93.8% of residents of Galesburg township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
2.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 412- In family households: 348 (105 male householders, 26 female householders)
125 spouses, 92 children (92 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 64 (38 male householders (38 living alone)), 26 female householders (26 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 86 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 15 4-persons, 12 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 64 1-person,
61 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (3 men, 11 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% |