Brimfield township, Peoria County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Brimfield township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Brimfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1202
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 64
- South: 27
- West: 5
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.8% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 456
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 13
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 29
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,000
Housing units in Brimfield township with a mortgage: 207 (13 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 136
- Construction (15%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brimfield township:
- German (37.0%)
- English (17.9%)
- Irish (13.2%)
- United States or American (9.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Swedish (2.4%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 535 (84%)
- Carpooled: 57 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 15 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 20 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
98.3% of residents of Brimfield township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,303- In family households: 1,117 (276 male householders, 64 female householders)
303 spouses, 431 children (371 natural, 19 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 4 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 186 (62 male householders (52 living alone)), 89 female householders (78 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 132 2-persons, 85 3-persons, 67 4-persons, 33 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 130 1-person, 12 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
276 married couples with children.
65 single-parent households (7 men, 58 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |