Blue Mound township, Macon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Blue Mound township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
68% of Blue Mound township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 89% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 809
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 48
- South: 57
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $72,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 342
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,800
Housing units in Blue Mound township with a mortgage: 121 (23 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 48
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Repair and maintenance (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Health care (28%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Health technologists and technicians (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blue Mound township:
- German (32.4%)
- English (22.8%)
- United States or American (22.1%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
- Scottish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (55%)
- United Kingdom (45%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 431 (84%)
- Carpooled: 33 (6%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (47%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
99.1% of residents of Blue Mound township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 930- In family households: 848 (255 male householders, 31 female householders)
264 spouses, 267 children (258 natural, 4 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 8 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 82 (20 male householders (15 living alone)), 42 female householders (34 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 138 2-persons, 48 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 49 1-person, 8 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
183 married couples with children.
28 single-parent households (12 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
Here: | 17.9% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 13.8% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |