Garden Plain township, Whiteside County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (93% naturalized citizens)
| Garden Plain township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
66% of Garden Plain township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 426
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 512
- South: 46
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 360
- One, attached: 5
- Mobile homes: 48
Median worth of mobile homes: $58,300
Housing units in Garden Plain township with a mortgage: 101 (5 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 108
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Construction (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Health care (11%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (10%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (15%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Bus drivers (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garden Plain township:
- Dutch (33.5%)
- German (23.6%)
- United States or American (10.9%)
- English (9.4%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- European (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (47%)
- Canada (47%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 387 (80%)
- Carpooled: 51 (11%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (45%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (40%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
98.1% of residents of Garden Plain township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,011- In family households: 914 (283 male householders, 32 female householders)
274 spouses, 273 children (209 natural, 12 adopted, 52 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 20 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 97 (61 male householders (61 living alone)), 26 female householders (15 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 162 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 58 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 76 1-person, 11 2-persons,
211 married couples with children.
29 single-parent households (12 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 21.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 6.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 38.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |