Lamotte township, Crawford County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (20% naturalized citizens)
Lamotte township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
61% of Lamotte township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1399
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 558
- South: 72
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $56,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 825
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 14
- 3 or 4: 34
- 5 to 9: 17
- Mobile homes: 141
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,300
Housing units in Lamotte township with a mortgage: 305 (21 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 254
- Construction (16%)
- Food (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Petroleum and coal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (11%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Food (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lamotte township:
- United States or American (29.9%)
- German (22.4%)
- English (12.7%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- Dutch (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (80%)
- Korea (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 806 (82%)
- Carpooled: 108 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 24 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.0% of residents of Lamotte township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (19% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 44% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (27% speak English very well, 73% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,085- In family households: 1,731 (499 male householders, 118 female householders)
495 spouses, 544 children (480 natural, 11 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 19 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 354 (124 male householders (100 living alone)), 162 female householders (159 living alone)), 68 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 323 2-persons, 133 3-persons, 122 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 7 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 259 1-person, 12 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 4 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
335 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (23 men, 81 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 2.6% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.2% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
Here: | 8.8% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |