Leepertown township, Bureau County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Leepertown township: | 4.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
77% of Leepertown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 329
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 26
- South: 16
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 1.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 139
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 43
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,800
Housing units in Leepertown township with a mortgage: 65 (0 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 37
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (17%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Gasoline stations (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (17%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Leepertown township:
- German (27.0%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- English (9.2%)
- French (except Basque) (7.8%)
- Polish (6.8%)
- United States or American (6.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 156 (76%)
- Carpooled: 23 (11%)
- Walked: 15 (7%)
- Other means: 5 (2%)
- Worked at home: 7 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
93.5% of residents of Leepertown township speak English at home.
5.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 62% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 398- In family households: 346 (84 male householders, 22 female householders)
81 spouses, 123 children (105 natural, 4 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 9 other relatives, 7 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 52 (22 male householders (18 living alone)), 20 female householders (20 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 45 2-persons, 23 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 11 5-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 38 1-person, 3 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
72 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (7 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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: 1
| Here: | 12.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |