Grand Prairie township, Jefferson County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Grand Prairie township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
71% of Grand Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 26% 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: 875
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 73
- South: 55
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 259
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 139
Median worth of mobile homes: $41,200
Housing units in Grand Prairie township with a mortgage: 76 (4 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 28
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (28%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grand Prairie township:
- United States or American (25.7%)
- German (25.0%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- English (7.1%)
- Polish (6.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.9%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Trinidad and Tobago (67%)
- Germany (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 404 (83%)
- Carpooled: 42 (9%)
- Ferryboat: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 13 (3%)
- Other means: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 16 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (62%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (14%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.6% of residents of Grand Prairie township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 62% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,032- In family households: 948 (264 male householders, 34 female householders)
257 spouses, 307 children (283 natural, 0 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 7 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 84 (43 male householders (39 living alone)), 30 female householders (27 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 131 2-persons, 72 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 66 1-person, 6 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
197 married couples with children.
59 single-parent households (22 men, 37 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 5.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |