Nettle Creek township, Grundy County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
Nettle Creek township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
63% of Nettle Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 16% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 392
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 44
- South: 32
- West: 1
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $145,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 188
Housing units in Nettle Creek township with a mortgage: 89 (18 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 31
- Construction (23%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Health care (8%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (14%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (13%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Nettle Creek township:
- German (30.6%)
- Norwegian (20.5%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- English (8.3%)
- Italian (7.6%)
- Dutch (3.7%)
- Slovak (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (67%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 204 (82%)
- Carpooled: 29 (12%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (68%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- Electricity (2%)
96.9% of residents of Nettle Creek township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 489- In family households: 476 (151 male householders, 5 female householders)
163 spouses, 149 children (135 natural, 5 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 13 (8 male householders (7 living alone)), 3 female householders (3 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 72 2-persons, 42 3-persons, 23 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 2 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10 1-person, 1 2-persons,
107 married couples with children.
8 single-parent households (7 men, 1 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
Here: | 6.8% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 7.4% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |