Sumpter township, Cumberland County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (25% naturalized citizens)
| Sumpter township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Sumpter 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, 90% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1759
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 76
- South: 95
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $26,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
11 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 703
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 27
- 3 or 4: 17
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 15
- 20 to 49: 1
- Mobile homes: 107
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Sumpter township with a mortgage: 243 (16 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 166
- Machinery (11%)
- Printing and related support activities (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Printing workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sumpter township:
- United States or American (37.0%)
- German (29.9%)
- English (9.4%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- Italian (1.6%)
- Swedish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (75%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 780 (83%)
- Carpooled: 115 (12%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 34 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (1%)
11 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
99.0% of residents of Sumpter township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (36% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 45% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,958- In family households: 1,696 (455 male householders, 97 female householders)
419 spouses, 640 children (580 natural, 9 adopted, 51 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 9 other relatives, 49 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 262 (84 male householders (77 living alone)), 162 female householders (162 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 233 2-persons, 133 3-persons, 111 4-persons, 63 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 239 1-person, 1 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
349 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (53 men, 84 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |