Payson township, Adams County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Payson township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Payson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1518
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 226
- South: 50
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 604
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 26
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 88
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,700
Housing units in Payson township with a mortgage: 266 (34 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 160
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Food (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Payson township:
- German (45.1%)
- United States or American (27.4%)
- English (12.9%)
- Irish (4.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.3%)
- Scottish (1.3%)
- Norwegian (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (40%)
- Turkey (30%)
- Micronesia (30%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 782 (87%)
- Carpooled: 87 (10%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 17 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (3%)
98.8% of residents of Payson township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,847- In family households: 1,665 (461 male householders, 71 female householders)
450 spouses, 621 children (567 natural, 12 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 4 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 182 (56 male householders (46 living alone)), 104 female householders (97 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 196 2-persons, 143 3-persons, 112 4-persons, 63 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 143 1-person, 16 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
429 married couples with children.
88 single-parent households (21 men, 67 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |