Bonus township, Boone County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Bonus township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
53% of Bonus township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 29% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2006
- Northeast: 72
- Midwest: 222
- South: 160
- West: 64
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 876
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 17
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Bonus township with a mortgage: 517 (36 second mortgage, 105 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 150
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bonus township:
- German (39.9%)
- Irish (13.9%)
- English (7.6%)
- Norwegian (5.9%)
- United States or American (4.9%)
- Polish (4.8%)
- Italian (3.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (73%)
- Other Eastern Europe (11%)
- Ukraine (10%)
- Germany (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,131 (84%)
- Carpooled: 140 (10%)
- Railroad: 12 (1%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 22 (2%)
- Worked at home: 47 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Wood (1%)
92.8% of residents of Bonus township speak English at home.
6.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (47% speak English very well, 53% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,595- In family households: 2,466 (688 male householders, 84 female householders)
657 spouses, 909 children (836 natural, 8 adopted, 65 stepchildren), 38 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 8 other relatives, 56 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 129 (63 male householders (56 living alone)), 60 female householders (60 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 306 2-persons, 174 3-persons, 172 4-persons, 87 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 116 1-person, 7 2-persons,
621 married couples with children.
92 single-parent households (18 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 43
| Here: | 15.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 3.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 32.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |