Martin township, McLean County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Martin township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Martin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 82% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1101
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 79
- South: 81
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
44 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 477
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 14
- Mobile homes: 23
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,300
Housing units in Martin township with a mortgage: 229 (34 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 137
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Construction (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Health care (25%)
- Finance and insurance (16%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (14%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Martin township:
- German (43.2%)
- United States or American (14.4%)
- English (12.1%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- Italian (2.0%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
- Polish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 487 (77%)
- Carpooled: 89 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (3%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 30 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
44 people in nursing homes
97.7% of residents of Martin township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,241- In family households: 1,067 (287 male householders, 58 female householders)
318 spouses, 379 children (353 natural, 1 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 174 (59 male householders (50 living alone)), 93 female householders (85 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 42 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 151 2-persons, 63 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 41 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 135 1-person, 13 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
262 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (7 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 3.8% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |