Earl township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (73% naturalized citizens)
| Earl township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
58% of Earl township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2129
- Northeast: 58
- Midwest: 221
- South: 128
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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: 790
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 26
- 3 or 4: 57
- 5 to 9: 53
- 10 to 19: 2
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 107
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,900
Housing units in Earl township with a mortgage: 379 (47 second mortgage, 61 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 214
- Construction (17%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Earl township:
- German (29.5%)
- Irish (12.9%)
- English (10.2%)
- Norwegian (9.8%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- Italian (4.0%)
- Polish (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (42%)
- Other Eastern Europe (15%)
- Korea (15%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Poland (8%)
- Peru (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 958 (81%)
- Carpooled: 127 (11%)
- Walked: 32 (3%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 51 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
96.7% of residents of Earl township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (28% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,623- In family households: 2,333 (631 male householders, 109 female householders)
630 spouses, 887 children (743 natural, 44 adopted, 100 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 12 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 290 (119 male householders (99 living alone)), 132 female householders (125 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 304 2-persons, 160 3-persons, 165 4-persons, 86 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 224 1-person, 24 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
618 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (33 men, 104 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 7.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 11.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |