Griggsville township, Pike County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Griggsville township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Griggsville 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, 63% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1289
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 74
- South: 66
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $28,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
11 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 491
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 6
- 10 to 19: 11
- Mobile homes: 95
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Griggsville township with a mortgage: 184 (7 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 147
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Griggsville township:
- German (27.4%)
- United States or American (26.0%)
- English (21.7%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Italian (3.6%)
- Swedish (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (50%)
- Nicaragua (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 520 (80%)
- Carpooled: 79 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 17 (3%)
- Other means: 11 (2%)
- Worked at home: 23 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
11 people in nursing homes
99.4% of residents of Griggsville township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,466- In family households: 1,287 (346 male householders, 75 female householders)
359 spouses, 452 children (393 natural, 9 adopted, 50 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 9 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 179 (59 male householders (47 living alone)), 101 female householders (91 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 10 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 188 2-persons, 95 3-persons, 76 4-persons, 45 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 138 1-person, 21 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
283 married couples with children.
95 single-parent households (19 men, 76 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 1.0% |
| 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: | 18.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |