Pleasant View township, Macon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant View township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Pleasant View township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1245
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 81
- South: 44
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $16,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 488
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 62
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Pleasant View township with a mortgage: 203 (6 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 168
- Food (11%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant View township:
- United States or American (30.9%)
- German (26.4%)
- English (12.5%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- French (except Basque) (4.9%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (60%)
- Indonesia (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 636 (88%)
- Carpooled: 60 (8%)
- Bicycle: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 11 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 10 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
97.2% of residents of Pleasant View township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,415- In family households: 1,236 (355 male householders, 64 female householders)
334 spouses, 418 children (360 natural, 29 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 13 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 179 (63 male householders (51 living alone)), 92 female householders (84 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 197 2-persons, 113 3-persons, 72 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 11 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 135 1-person, 15 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
277 married couples with children.
59 single-parent households (15 men, 44 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
| Here: | 15.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 7.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 28.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |