Farm Ridge township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Farm Ridge township: | 7.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
71% of Farm Ridge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 762
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 50
- South: 31
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $67,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 327
- Two: 8
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $137,500
Housing units in Farm Ridge township with a mortgage: 116 (7 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 77
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Farm Ridge township:
- German (29.9%)
- Irish (17.9%)
- United States or American (8.4%)
- English (7.9%)
- Italian (4.3%)
- Dutch (3.3%)
- Norwegian (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (86%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Germany (3%)
- Russia (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 331 (82%)
- Carpooled: 22 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 24 (6%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 21 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
92.1% of residents of Farm Ridge township speak English at home.
6.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (17% speak English very well, 83% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 925- In family households: 827 (236 male householders, 24 female householders)
231 spouses, 270 children (236 natural, 21 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 18 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 98 (24 male householders (17 living alone)), 62 female householders (56 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 112 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 73 1-person, 13 2-persons,
206 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (5 men, 19 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 4.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 8.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |