Piasa township, Jersey County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Piasa township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Piasa township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2548
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 288
- South: 161
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
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: 992
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 5
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 18
- Mobile homes: 118
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Piasa township with a mortgage: 463 (57 second mortgage, 51 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 192
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Piasa township:
- German (38.4%)
- Irish (16.4%)
- English (13.3%)
- United States or American (10.8%)
- Belgian (2.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Scottish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (56%)
- India (28%)
- Germany (8%)
- Ecuador (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,309 (88%)
- Carpooled: 81 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 38 (3%)
- Worked at home: 57 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (54%)
- Utility gas (29%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
97.4% of residents of Piasa township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,058- In family households: 2,816 (760 male householders, 126 female householders)
823 spouses, 985 children (933 natural, 5 adopted, 47 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 21 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 242 (118 male householders (102 living alone)), 86 female householders (73 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 350 2-persons, 224 3-persons, 210 4-persons, 72 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 175 1-person, 23 2-persons, 6 4-persons,
611 married couples with children.
143 single-parent households (33 men, 110 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 62
| Here: | 16.2% |
| 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: 21
| Here: | 14.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |