Hickory Point township, Macon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (46% naturalized citizens)
| Hickory Point township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
53% of Hickory Point township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 13646
- Northeast: 382
- Midwest: 1672
- South: 1086
- West: 297
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Hickory Point township, Illinois:
- 380 people in state prisons
- 113 people in nursing homes
- 68 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,957
- One, attached: 167
- Two: 61
- 3 or 4: 392
- 5 to 9: 520
- 10 to 19: 451
- 20 to 49: 649
- 50 or more: 178
- Mobile homes: 507
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Hickory Point township with a mortgage: 2,823 (190 second mortgage, 291 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,666
- Machinery (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Food (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Engineers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hickory Point township:
- German (28.3%)
- United States or American (13.0%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- English (9.9%)
- European (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
- Polish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (11%)
- India (10%)
- South Africa (10%)
- Japan (7%)
- Iran (6%)
- Mexico (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,117 (87%)
- Carpooled: 722 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 28 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 55 (1%)
- Other means: 25 (0%)
- Worked at home: 231 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Hickory Point township, Illinois:
- 380 people in state prisons
- 113 people in nursing homes
- 68 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.0% of residents of Hickory Point township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 17,041- In family households: 14,218 (3,885 male householders, 1,119 female householders)
4,064 spouses, 4,652 children (4,305 natural, 152 adopted, 195 stepchildren), 151 grandchildren, 45 brothers or sisters, 65 parents, 52 other relatives, 185 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,823 (1,123 male householders (972 living alone)), 1,399 female householders (1,306 living alone)), 301 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 562 (494 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,694 2-persons, 1,014 3-persons, 820 4-persons, 335 5-persons, 131 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,278 1-person, 216 2-persons, 22 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
2,758 married couples with children.
1,018 single-parent households (170 men, 848 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 411
| Here: | 23.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 153
| Here: | 16.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 103
| Here: | 17.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |