Caledonia township, Boone County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Caledonia township: | 3.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
52% of Caledonia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 17% 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: 3486
- Northeast: 189
- Midwest: 461
- South: 162
- West: 103
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $144,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,558
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 2
Housing units in Caledonia township with a mortgage: 1,101 (177 second mortgage, 149 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 135
- Construction (21%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Customer service representatives (7%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Caledonia township:
- German (24.1%)
- Italian (15.2%)
- Irish (11.9%)
- Polish (8.1%)
- English (6.3%)
- Swedish (5.1%)
- United States or American (4.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Central America (22%)
- Italy (15%)
- Germany (11%)
- Guatemala (9%)
- Mexico (8%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Poland (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,882 (85%)
- Carpooled: 228 (10%)
- Railroad: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 75 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (85%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
93.6% of residents of Caledonia township speak English at home.
4.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (91% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 1% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (20% speak English very well, 80% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,552- In family households: 4,314 (1,125 male householders, 123 female householders)
1,094 spouses, 1,741 children (1,606 natural, 49 adopted, 86 stepchildren), 62 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 54 other relatives, 101 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 238 (93 male householders (76 living alone)), 96 female householders (83 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 417 2-persons, 240 3-persons, 340 4-persons, 163 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 159 1-person, 20 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 2 5-persons,
1,325 married couples with children.
148 single-parent households (56 men, 92 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 77
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 35
| Here: | 12.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 45
| Here: | 31.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |