Sparta township, Knox County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (80% naturalized citizens)
| Sparta township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Sparta township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 42% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 928
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 141
- South: 15
- West: 28
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 449
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 26
- 3 or 4: 18
- 10 to 19: 9
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Sparta township with a mortgage: 222 (23 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 90
- Construction (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Construction (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sparta township:
- German (27.3%)
- Swedish (16.0%)
- United States or American (14.2%)
- English (13.8%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
- Scottish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- France (80%)
- Canada (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 490 (82%)
- Carpooled: 53 (9%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (1%)
- Bicycle: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
98.5% of residents of Sparta township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,148- In family households: 1,014 (276 male householders, 77 female householders)
292 spouses, 342 children (296 natural, 7 adopted, 39 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 134 (60 male householders (52 living alone)), 60 female householders (58 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 182 2-persons, 73 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 110 1-person, 5 2-persons, 5 4-persons,
200 married couples with children.
80 single-parent households (18 men, 62 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 25.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |