Preemption township, Mercer County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (4% naturalized citizens)
| Preemption township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Preemption township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1462
- Northeast: 21
- Midwest: 259
- South: 42
- West: 55
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 676
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 25
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Preemption township with a mortgage: 306 (19 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 204
- Construction (21%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (11%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electricians (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Business operations specialists (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Preemption township:
- German (28.1%)
- Irish (18.1%)
- United States or American (11.6%)
- Swedish (10.0%)
- English (7.0%)
- Italian (3.8%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (51%)
- Philippines (45%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 766 (79%)
- Carpooled: 122 (13%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (2%)
96.2% of residents of Preemption township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% 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: 1,895- In family households: 1,708 (458 male householders, 91 female householders)
484 spouses, 603 children (506 natural, 10 adopted, 87 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 32 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 187 (73 male householders (62 living alone)), 81 female householders (75 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 228 2-persons, 134 3-persons, 132 4-persons, 45 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 137 1-person, 13 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
371 married couples with children.
102 single-parent households (31 men, 71 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 4.2% |
| 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: 10
| Here: | 16.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |