Mount Carroll township, Carroll County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Carroll township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Mount Carroll township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1797
- Northeast: 46
- Midwest: 433
- South: 90
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $51,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
21 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
12 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 921
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 24
- 3 or 4: 65
- 5 to 9: 13
- 10 to 19: 11
- 20 to 49: 25
- Mobile homes: 48
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Mount Carroll township with a mortgage: 339 (26 second mortgage, 27 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 275
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (10%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Carroll township:
- German (47.0%)
- United States or American (12.7%)
- English (8.0%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- Dutch (5.1%)
- Italian (3.5%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (56%)
- Other Eastern Europe (15%)
- Canada (15%)
- Poland (9%)
- Other Northern Europe (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 810 (74%)
- Carpooled: 184 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 46 (4%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 43 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
21 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
12 people in nursing homes
95.9% of residents of Mount Carroll township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (32% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 39% speak English not well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,417- In family households: 2,103 (556 male householders, 131 female householders)
577 spouses, 691 children (615 natural, 24 adopted, 52 stepchildren), 51 grandchildren, 28 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 3 other relatives, 62 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 314 (110 male householders (77 living alone)), 158 female householders (152 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 34 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 315 2-persons, 141 3-persons, 160 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 229 1-person, 33 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
443 married couples with children.
118 single-parent households (37 men, 81 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: 12
| Here: | 23.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |