Fairfield township, Bureau County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Fairfield township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
74% of Fairfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 15% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 341
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 13
- South: 8
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 126
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 27
Housing units in Fairfield township with a mortgage: 24 (10 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 19
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (25%)
- Metal and metal products (19%)
- Construction (11%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Private households (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (11%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (6%)
- Registered nurses (20%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (16%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Special education teachers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairfield township:
- German (42.5%)
- English (8.4%)
- United States or American (6.7%)
- Swiss (6.3%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.9%)
- Swedish (4.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (50%)
- Canada (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 119 (71%)
- Carpooled: 25 (15%)
- Worked at home: 23 (14%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (69%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (16%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Wood (4%)
75.7% of residents of Fairfield township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
20.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 44% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
2.6% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 366- In family households: 317 (63 male householders, 24 female householders)
64 spouses, 160 children (150 natural, 2 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 49 (31 male householders (26 living alone)), 9 female householders (9 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 29 2-persons, 23 3-persons, 20 4-persons, 2 5-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 35 1-person, 1 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
114 married couples with children.
16 single-parent households (4 men, 12 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
| Here: | 66.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 53.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 15.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |