Lacon township, Marshall County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (70% naturalized citizens)
| Lacon township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Lacon 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, 77% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2186
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 169
- South: 58
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
People in group quarters in Lacon township, Illinois:
- 90 people in nursing homes
- 16 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 915
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 42
- 10 to 19: 15
- Mobile homes: 31
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Lacon township with a mortgage: 398 (31 second mortgage, 49 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 345
- Machinery (12%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Construction (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lacon township:
- German (35.5%)
- United States or American (15.0%)
- Irish (12.9%)
- English (11.7%)
- French (except Basque) (5.1%)
- Swedish (3.7%)
- Italian (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (70%)
- Germany (30%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 950 (81%)
- Carpooled: 103 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Railroad: 16 (1%)
- Bicycle: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 49 (4%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 38 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Lacon township, Illinois:
- 90 people in nursing homes
- 16 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
98.6% of residents of Lacon township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (36% speak English very well, 64% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,384- In family households: 2,075 (584 male householders, 115 female householders)
566 spouses, 744 children (691 natural, 5 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 2 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 309 (112 male householders (99 living alone)), 168 female householders (159 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 110 (89 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 336 2-persons, 155 3-persons, 135 4-persons, 56 5-persons, 17 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 258 1-person, 16 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
423 married couples with children.
113 single-parent households (27 men, 86 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 21
| Here: | 7.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |