Douglas township, Effingham County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Douglas township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
52% of Douglas 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, 73% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10421
- Northeast: 191
- Midwest: 1034
- South: 527
- West: 230
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $68,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
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
People in group quarters in Douglas township, Illinois:
- 242 people in nursing homes
- 60 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 30 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 22 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,864
- One, attached: 116
- Two: 250
- 3 or 4: 275
- 5 to 9: 337
- 10 to 19: 219
- 20 to 49: 289
- 50 or more: 135
- Mobile homes: 162
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,600
Housing units in Douglas township with a mortgage: 1,795 (140 second mortgage, 123 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,189
- Printing and related support activities (13%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Douglas township:
- German (49.3%)
- United States or American (12.6%)
- English (9.3%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (42%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (13%)
- India (10%)
- Germany (9%)
- Ghana (5%)
- Brazil (5%)
- Philippines (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,194 (84%)
- Carpooled: 520 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 19 (0%)
- Bicycle: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 138 (2%)
- Other means: 83 (1%)
- Worked at home: 208 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Douglas township, Illinois:
- 242 people in nursing homes
- 60 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 30 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 22 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.5% of residents of Douglas township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (45% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 38% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,316- In family households: 9,947 (2,498 male householders, 731 female householders)
2,536 spouses, 3,767 children (3,462 natural, 109 adopted, 196 stepchildren), 87 grandchildren, 57 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 82 other relatives, 159 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,369 (871 male householders (729 living alone)), 1,237 female householders (1,160 living alone)), 261 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 358 (270 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,498 2-persons, 629 3-persons, 668 4-persons, 289 5-persons, 127 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,889 1-person, 194 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
2,286 married couples with children.
803 single-parent households (137 men, 666 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 332
| Here: | 22.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 116
| Here: | 17.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 31
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |