Ganeer township, Kankakee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (39% naturalized citizens)
Ganeer township: | 2.5% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Ganeer township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2653
- Northeast: 37
- Midwest: 285
- South: 220
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Ganeer township, Illinois:
- 40 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,109
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 48
- 3 or 4: 38
- 5 to 9: 49
- 20 to 49: 25
- Mobile homes: 35
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,000
Housing units in Ganeer township with a mortgage: 528 (74 second mortgage, 90 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 259
- Construction (12%)
- Food (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ganeer township:
- German (20.2%)
- French (except Basque) (10.8%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- English (6.1%)
- Polish (5.0%)
- United States or American (4.0%)
- Dutch (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (70%)
- Poland (20%)
- Germany (5%)
- Cuba (4%)
- Ghana (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,256 (81%)
- Carpooled: 123 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Railroad: 19 (1%)
- Walked: 63 (4%)
- Other means: 46 (3%)
- Worked at home: 38 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Ganeer township, Illinois:
- 40 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
92.0% of residents of Ganeer township speak English at home.
6.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,258- In family households: 2,835 (692 male householders, 201 female householders)
710 spouses, 1,058 children (940 natural, 47 adopted, 71 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 43 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 423 (176 male householders (149 living alone)), 172 female householders (154 living alone)), 75 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 54 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 357 2-persons, 193 3-persons, 186 4-persons, 99 5-persons, 54 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 303 1-person, 36 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 5 5-persons,
583 married couples with children.
181 single-parent households (32 men, 149 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 63
Here: | 13.5% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 2.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 29
Here: | 21.5% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |