Akron township, Peoria County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Akron township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Akron township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 833
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 85
- South: 51
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 314
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 33
- 10 to 19: 19
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Akron township with a mortgage: 144 (3 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 88
- Machinery (23%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Construction (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Warehousing and storage (4%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (3%)
- Art and design workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Akron township:
- German (51.3%)
- United States or American (12.6%)
- English (10.1%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Scottish (3.9%)
- Swedish (2.9%)
- Swiss (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (50%)
- Mexico (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 357 (80%)
- Carpooled: 23 (5%)
- Walked: 17 (4%)
- Worked at home: 48 (11%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
95.4% of residents of Akron township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (96% speak English very well, 4% speak English well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 37% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 994- In family households: 903 (216 male householders, 58 female householders)
236 spouses, 372 children (336 natural, 17 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 2 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 91 (43 male householders (39 living alone)), 43 female householders (43 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 131 2-persons, 37 3-persons, 51 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 82 1-person, 2 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
253 married couples with children.
27 single-parent households (8 men, 19 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 3.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 25.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 16.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |