Mount Pulaski township, Logan County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Pulaski township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
71% of Mount Pulaski township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1895
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 151
- South: 126
- West: 52
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $72,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
87 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 816
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 45
- 3 or 4: 37
- 5 to 9: 6
- Mobile homes: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Mount Pulaski township with a mortgage: 343 (47 second mortgage, 18 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 306
- Construction (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Pulaski township:
- German (37.6%)
- United States or American (17.6%)
- Irish (13.4%)
- English (9.4%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (44%)
- Other Eastern Africa (33%)
- Philippines (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 898 (84%)
- Carpooled: 97 (9%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 56 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
87 people in nursing homes
97.9% of residents of Mount Pulaski township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (82% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,163- In family households: 1,853 (547 male householders, 98 female householders)
549 spouses, 608 children (553 natural, 13 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 5 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 310 (97 male householders (78 living alone)), 186 female householders (183 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 90 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 303 2-persons, 167 3-persons, 125 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 261 1-person, 16 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
403 married couples with children.
91 single-parent households (29 men, 62 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |