Pontoosuc township, Hancock County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Pontoosuc township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Pontoosuc township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 23% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 158
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 251
- South: 9
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 144
- Mobile homes: 74
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,300
Housing units in Pontoosuc township with a mortgage: 31 (5 second mortgage, 1 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 27
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (19%)
- Construction (11%)
- Rail transportation (11%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Warehousing and storage (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Paper (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pontoosuc township:
- German (30.5%)
- United States or American (17.6%)
- Irish (15.4%)
- English (10.7%)
- Scottish (5.9%)
- Swedish (5.5%)
- Italian (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 202 (87%)
- Carpooled: 9 (4%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (2%)
- Worked at home: 13 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
99.5% of residents of Pontoosuc township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 461- In family households: 412 (91 male householders, 37 female householders)
100 spouses, 166 children (155 natural, 4 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 3 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 49 (21 male householders (19 living alone)), 23 female householders (21 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 45 2-persons, 45 3-persons, 20 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 40 1-person, 4 2-persons,
79 married couples with children.
17 single-parent households (4 men, 13 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |