Grover township, Wayne County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (46% naturalized citizens)
| Grover township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Grover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3126
- Northeast: 70
- Midwest: 407
- South: 235
- West: 51
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $20,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
30 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,400
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 25
- 3 or 4: 31
- 5 to 9: 45
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 25
- 50 or more: 125
- Mobile homes: 348
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,900
Housing units in Grover township with a mortgage: 442 (29 second mortgage, 28 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 554
- Transportation equipment (28%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Construction (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Transportation equipment (17%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grover township:
- United States or American (31.9%)
- English (16.8%)
- German (14.9%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
- European (1.8%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (41%)
- Ecuador (30%)
- Poland (20%)
- Spain (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,444 (81%)
- Carpooled: 217 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 81 (5%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 28 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
30 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.0% of residents of Grover township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (48% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,946- In family households: 3,205 (943 male householders, 210 female householders)
929 spouses, 926 children (818 natural, 15 adopted, 93 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 17 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 31 other relatives, 89 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 741 (226 male householders (197 living alone)), 456 female householders (431 living alone)), 59 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 32 (29 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 590 2-persons, 292 3-persons, 215 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 628 1-person, 54 2-persons,
585 married couples with children.
202 single-parent households (44 men, 158 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
| Here: | 0.3% |
| 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: 9
| Here: | 5.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |