Gridley township, McLean County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (78% naturalized citizens)
Gridley township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Gridley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1591
- Northeast: 41
- Midwest: 177
- South: 48
- West: 28
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 627
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 20
- 3 or 4: 29
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 16
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Gridley township with a mortgage: 299 (47 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 198
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (23%)
- Finance and insurance (16%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gridley township:
- German (48.4%)
- United States or American (14.3%)
- English (9.3%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- Swiss (3.1%)
- Swedish (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Japan (22%)
- Guatemala (22%)
- Other Northern America (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 696 (80%)
- Carpooled: 110 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Railroad: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 35 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
98.3% of residents of Gridley township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 50% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,904- In family households: 1,700 (433 male householders, 97 female householders)
455 spouses, 649 children (622 natural, 19 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 15 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 204 (72 male householders (69 living alone)), 118 female householders (108 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 240 2-persons, 94 3-persons, 93 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 177 1-person, 13 2-persons,
473 married couples with children.
62 single-parent households (18 men, 44 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
Here: | 8.7% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 7.9% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |