Dwight township, Livingston County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (36% naturalized citizens)
| Dwight township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
54% of Dwight township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4708
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 264
- South: 370
- West: 118
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Dwight township, Illinois:
- 1,009 people in state prisons
- 169 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 68 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,293
- One, attached: 40
- Two: 151
- 3 or 4: 103
- 5 to 9: 74
- 10 to 19: 13
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 197
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Dwight township with a mortgage: 604 (83 second mortgage, 50 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 444
- Printing and related support activities (13%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Printing and related support activities (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dwight township:
- German (29.5%)
- Irish (15.8%)
- United States or American (11.3%)
- Danish (6.7%)
- English (5.4%)
- Norwegian (4.4%)
- Italian (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (71%)
- Ireland (13%)
- Colombia (10%)
- Canada (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,659 (80%)
- Carpooled: 250 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 85 (4%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 44 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Dwight township, Illinois:
- 1,009 people in state prisons
- 169 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 68 people in nursing homes
95.9% of residents of Dwight township speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,342- In family households: 3,696 (879 male householders, 274 female householders)
934 spouses, 1,439 children (1,333 natural, 46 adopted, 60 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 0 other relatives, 95 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 646 (199 male householders (185 living alone)), 372 female householders (318 living alone)), 75 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,239 (1,065 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 459 2-persons, 268 3-persons, 247 4-persons, 121 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 503 1-person, 68 2-persons,
904 married couples with children.
239 single-parent households (54 men, 185 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 53
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 2.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 37
| Here: | 30.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |