Custer township, Will County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Custer township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Custer township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1262
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 34
- South: 54
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 476
- 3 or 4: 12
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Custer township with a mortgage: 200 (7 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 96
- Construction (23%)
- Chemicals (10%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (16%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Construction laborers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Bus drivers (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Custer township:
- German (29.1%)
- United States or American (12.9%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- English (9.8%)
- Polish (6.5%)
- Italian (5.9%)
- French (except Basque) (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (50%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 561 (75%)
- Carpooled: 132 (18%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 26 (3%)
- Worked at home: 27 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (2%)
95.9% of residents of Custer township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 41% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,402- In family households: 1,213 (348 male householders, 41 female householders)
315 spouses, 450 children (409 natural, 0 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 0 other relatives, 41 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 189 (56 male householders (34 living alone)), 68 female householders (51 living alone)), 65 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 142 2-persons, 96 3-persons, 82 4-persons, 69 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 85 1-person, 19 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 12 5-persons,
314 married couples with children.
40 single-parent households (15 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 7.0% |
| 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: 19
| Here: | 47.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |