Okaw township, Shelby County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Okaw township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
66% of Okaw township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 88% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 709
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 60
- South: 40
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 362
- One, attached: 4
- 3 or 4: 12
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 41
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Okaw township with a mortgage: 134 (0 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 109
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Paper (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Okaw township:
- German (21.8%)
- United States or American (18.7%)
- Irish (13.9%)
- English (13.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.4%)
- Polish (3.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 311 (79%)
- Carpooled: 50 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 14 (4%)
- Other means: 10 (3%)
- Worked at home: 7 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
95.1% of residents of Okaw township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 844- In family households: 753 (240 male householders, 42 female householders)
243 spouses, 204 children (170 natural, 5 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 5 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 91 (47 male householders (46 living alone)), 38 female householders (36 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 172 2-persons, 44 3-persons, 46 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 82 1-person, 3 2-persons,
121 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (5 men, 17 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: 2
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |