Loda township, Iroquois County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (35% naturalized citizens)
| Loda township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
58% of Loda township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 90% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 973
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 146
- South: 66
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $103,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 628
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 40
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Loda township with a mortgage: 269 (18 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 129
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Loda township:
- German (36.4%)
- English (11.5%)
- United States or American (11.1%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- Swedish (4.6%)
- Italian (3.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (38%)
- Germany (35%)
- Austria (15%)
- Canada (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 534 (86%)
- Carpooled: 50 (8%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 26 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
95.7% of residents of Loda township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (29% speak English very well, 71% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,283- In family households: 1,122 (358 male householders, 54 female householders)
411 spouses, 267 children (222 natural, 4 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 1 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 161 (79 male householders (69 living alone)), 66 female householders (56 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 234 2-persons, 87 3-persons, 57 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 20 2-persons,
245 married couples with children.
33 single-parent households (14 men, 19 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 4.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |