Mendota township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Mendota township: | 7.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Mendota township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5858
- Northeast: 50
- Midwest: 596
- South: 222
- West: 226
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $86,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Mendota township, Illinois:
- 210 people in nursing homes
- 29 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,385
- One, attached: 34
- Two: 237
- 3 or 4: 156
- 5 to 9: 63
- 10 to 19: 26
- 20 to 49: 36
- 50 or more: 5
- Mobile homes: 71
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,300
Housing units in Mendota township with a mortgage: 1,147 (134 second mortgage, 100 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 804
- Machinery (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Printing and related support activities (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Printing workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mendota township:
- German (35.6%)
- Irish (10.7%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- English (6.8%)
- Swedish (2.7%)
- Italian (2.1%)
- Polish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (93%)
- Lebanon (3%)
- Other Western Europe (1%)
- Canada (1%)
- Philippines (1%)
- Other Northern America (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,725 (79%)
- Carpooled: 398 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 30 (1%)
- Walked: 162 (5%)
- Other means: 21 (1%)
- Worked at home: 93 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (85%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
People in group quarters in Mendota township, Illinois:
- 210 people in nursing homes
- 29 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
85.5% of residents of Mendota township speak English at home.
13.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,270- In family households: 6,287 (1,668 male householders, 322 female householders)
1,720 spouses, 2,219 children (2,033 natural, 59 adopted, 127 stepchildren), 76 grandchildren, 37 brothers or sisters, 56 parents, 60 other relatives, 129 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 983 (378 male householders (304 living alone)), 476 female householders (460 living alone)), 129 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 251 (217 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 883 2-persons, 406 3-persons, 375 4-persons, 203 5-persons, 79 6-persons, 44 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 764 1-person, 65 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 9 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
1,396 married couples with children.
374 single-parent households (96 men, 278 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 128
| Here: | 14.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 30
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
| Here: | 8.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |