La Salle township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (34% naturalized citizens)
| La Salle township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of La Salle township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11666
- Northeast: 234
- Midwest: 742
- South: 443
- West: 163
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in La Salle township, Illinois:
- 117 people in nursing homes
- 48 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,733
- One, attached: 97
- Two: 351
- 3 or 4: 541
- 5 to 9: 181
- 10 to 19: 64
- 20 to 49: 37
- 50 or more: 207
- Mobile homes: 152
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,600
Housing units in La Salle township with a mortgage: 1,932 (184 second mortgage, 139 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,792
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in La Salle township:
- German (22.2%)
- Polish (16.7%)
- Italian (15.3%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- English (7.3%)
- United States or American (3.8%)
- Slovene (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (69%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- Italy (4%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
- Vietnam (3%)
- Germany (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,089 (82%)
- Carpooled: 680 (11%)
- Railroad: 12 (0%)
- Taxi: 12 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 33 (1%)
- Walked: 235 (4%)
- Other means: 53 (1%)
- Worked at home: 109 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in La Salle township, Illinois:
- 117 people in nursing homes
- 48 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
93.9% of residents of La Salle township speak English at home.
4.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,528- In family households: 10,905 (2,752 male householders, 882 female householders)
2,745 spouses, 3,775 children (3,498 natural, 42 adopted, 235 stepchildren), 153 grandchildren, 79 brothers or sisters, 38 parents, 124 other relatives, 357 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,623 (1,106 male householders (926 living alone)), 1,178 female householders (1,092 living alone)), 339 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 188 (126 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,652 2-persons, 823 3-persons, 699 4-persons, 270 5-persons, 82 6-persons, 108 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,018 1-person, 218 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 10 5-persons,
2,054 married couples with children.
910 single-parent households (208 men, 702 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 327
| Here: | 23.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 79
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 52
| Here: | 9.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |