Clay City township, Clay County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (70% naturalized citizens)
Clay City township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Clay City 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, 65% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1156
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 109
- South: 56
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $30,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 429
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 35
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 11
- Mobile homes: 160
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,100
Housing units in Clay City township with a mortgage: 134 (13 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 150
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clay City township:
- United States or American (39.6%)
- German (25.4%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- English (7.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.2%)
- Albanian (2.1%)
- Dutch (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Turkey (60%)
- Greece (20%)
- Mexico (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 469 (81%)
- Carpooled: 77 (13%)
- Walked: 24 (4%)
- Worked at home: 12 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.4% of residents of Clay City township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,356- In family households: 1,122 (292 male householders, 78 female householders)
293 spouses, 412 children (386 natural, 7 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 4 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 234 (77 male householders (68 living alone)), 133 female householders (122 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 172 2-persons, 82 3-persons, 74 4-persons, 34 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 190 1-person, 17 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
267 married couples with children.
72 single-parent households (18 men, 54 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
Here: | 6.2% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |