Fairhaven township, Carroll County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Fairhaven township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
73% of Fairhaven township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% 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: 741
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 157
- South: 28
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 384
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 11
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in Fairhaven township with a mortgage: 92 (4 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 101
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Truck transportation (13%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Construction (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Machinery (12%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (22%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (16%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairhaven township:
- German (48.1%)
- Dutch (15.0%)
- English (6.5%)
- United States or American (4.9%)
- Polish (4.3%)
- Swedish (3.9%)
- Irish (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 394 (79%)
- Carpooled: 75 (15%)
- Bicycle: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 9 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
99.6% of residents of Fairhaven township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 953- In family households: 819 (271 male householders, 30 female householders)
260 spouses, 237 children (228 natural, 2 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 0 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 134 (69 male householders (66 living alone)), 60 female householders (60 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 179 2-persons, 55 3-persons, 42 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 126 1-person, 3 2-persons,
165 married couples with children.
44 single-parent households (24 men, 20 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |