Ashton township, Lee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (12% naturalized citizens)
| Ashton township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Ashton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1063
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 130
- South: 53
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 413
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 40
- 3 or 4: 27
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 16
- 20 to 49: 18
- Mobile homes: 13
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Ashton township with a mortgage: 191 (25 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 135
- Food (20%)
- Construction (15%)
- Warehousing and storage (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (3%)
- Food (18%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ashton township:
- German (44.1%)
- United States or American (11.7%)
- Irish (10.4%)
- English (7.2%)
- Swedish (2.8%)
- Italian (2.4%)
- Dutch (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Yugoslavia (41%)
- Mexico (35%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Germany (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 468 (77%)
- Carpooled: 76 (12%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 37 (6%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 21 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.9% of residents of Ashton township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,292- In family households: 1,119 (262 male householders, 89 female householders)
275 spouses, 427 children (396 natural, 8 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 15 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 173 (50 male householders (34 living alone)), 81 female householders (67 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 20 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 152 2-persons, 64 3-persons, 86 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 101 1-person, 21 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
239 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (21 men, 69 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 4.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 14.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |