Bourbon township, Douglas County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (64% naturalized citizens)
| Bourbon township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Bourbon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3253
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 215
- South: 105
- West: 47
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $53,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.3%
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: 971
- One, attached: 66
- Two: 37
- 3 or 4: 13
- 5 to 9: 35
- 20 to 49: 27
- Mobile homes: 49
Median worth of mobile homes: $74,500
Housing units in Bourbon township with a mortgage: 317 (15 second mortgage, 18 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 366
- Wood products (16%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Health care (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Woodworkers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Woodworkers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bourbon township:
- German (45.1%)
- United States or American (26.3%)
- English (7.1%)
- Swiss (6.3%)
- Irish (4.7%)
- Pennsylvania German (1.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (64%)
- Canada (36%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 918 (56%)
- Carpooled: 258 (16%)
- Bicycle: 134 (8%)
- Walked: 109 (7%)
- Other means: 70 (4%)
- Worked at home: 160 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (3%)
54.8% of residents of Bourbon township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% don't speak English at all).
44.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,658- In family households: 3,385 (825 male householders, 86 female householders)
809 spouses, 1,581 children (1,524 natural, 50 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 25 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 273 (99 male householders (94 living alone)), 169 female householders (169 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 340 2-persons, 169 3-persons, 141 4-persons, 95 5-persons, 50 6-persons, 116 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 263 1-person, 5 2-persons,
1,147 married couples with children.
81 single-parent households (18 men, 63 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 268
| Here: | 45.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 59
| Here: | 34.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |