Malta township, DeKalb County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
Malta township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Malta township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1162
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 142
- South: 47
- West: 37
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 495
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 16
Housing units in Malta township with a mortgage: 217 (16 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 130
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Construction (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Carpenters (3%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Malta township:
- German (26.1%)
- Norwegian (11.8%)
- Irish (10.4%)
- United States or American (10.2%)
- Swedish (9.0%)
- English (7.5%)
- Polish (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (36%)
- Greece (21%)
- France (14%)
- Germany (14%)
- Honduras (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 583 (76%)
- Carpooled: 116 (15%)
- Railroad: 1 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 55 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
97.2% of residents of Malta township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (45% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,430- In family households: 1,249 (354 male householders, 60 female householders)
358 spouses, 443 children (400 natural, 11 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 181 (59 male householders (42 living alone)), 71 female householders (59 living alone)), 51 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 188 2-persons, 92 3-persons, 82 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 101 1-person, 22 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
293 married couples with children.
61 single-parent households (23 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
Here: | 8.8% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 3.7% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
Here: | 3.8% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |