Looking Glass township, Clinton County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (32% naturalized citizens)
| Looking Glass township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Looking Glass township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3963
- Northeast: 66
- Midwest: 737
- South: 349
- West: 217
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
72 people in nursing homes
32 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,515
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 201
- 5 to 9: 37
- 10 to 19: 3
- 20 to 49: 15
- Mobile homes: 257
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,000
Housing units in Looking Glass township with a mortgage: 898 (134 second mortgage, 95 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 391
- Construction (13%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Looking Glass township:
- German (60.8%)
- United States or American (8.1%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- English (4.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Italian (1.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (58%)
- Japan (17%)
- Honduras (9%)
- Germany (8%)
- Philippines (3%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (2%)
- Korea (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,299 (80%)
- Carpooled: 350 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 24 (1%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 112 (4%)
- Other means: 18 (1%)
- Worked at home: 59 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
72 people in nursing homes
32 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
94.9% of residents of Looking Glass township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (34% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 29% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,429- In family households: 4,828 (1,246 male householders, 259 female householders)
1,258 spouses, 1,848 children (1,643 natural, 30 adopted, 175 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 27 other relatives, 96 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 601 (232 male householders (194 living alone)), 280 female householders (258 living alone)), 89 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 111 (70 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 580 2-persons, 353 3-persons, 349 4-persons, 153 5-persons, 40 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 452 1-person, 48 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 1 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
1,194 married couples with children.
230 single-parent households (64 men, 166 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 59
| Here: | 15.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 50
| Here: | 23.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |