Tower Hill township, Shelby County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (65% naturalized citizens)
| Tower Hill township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Tower Hill township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7105
- Northeast: 201
- Midwest: 595
- South: 386
- West: 88
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $96,700
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: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,507
- One, attached: 41
- Two: 142
- 3 or 4: 49
- 5 to 9: 11
- 10 to 19: 11
- Mobile homes: 338
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,200
Housing units in Tower Hill township with a mortgage: 1,516 (178 second mortgage, 300 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 574
- Construction (17%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tower Hill township:
- German (44.3%)
- Polish (11.0%)
- United States or American (8.6%)
- English (6.8%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Hungarian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Nicaragua (35%)
- Germany (29%)
- Canada (21%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,690 (87%)
- Carpooled: 350 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 77 (2%)
- Other means: 22 (1%)
- Worked at home: 85 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.6% of residents of Tower Hill township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (89% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,257- In family households: 7,561 (1,994 male householders, 390 female householders)
2,036 spouses, 2,734 children (2,443 natural, 98 adopted, 193 stepchildren), 144 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 35 parents, 82 other relatives, 119 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 696 (290 male householders (254 living alone)), 299 female householders (247 living alone)), 107 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 181 (166 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 956 2-persons, 560 3-persons, 553 4-persons, 227 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 501 1-person, 76 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
185 married couples with children.
67 single-parent households (29 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 108
| Here: | 11.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 61
| Here: | 10.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 39
| Here: | 12.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |