Tuscola township, Douglas County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (27% naturalized citizens)
| Tuscola township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Tuscola township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% 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: 4344
- Northeast: 46
- Midwest: 446
- South: 244
- West: 151
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $48,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
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
89 people in nursing homes
11 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,706
- One, attached: 66
- Two: 70
- 3 or 4: 147
- 5 to 9: 82
- 10 to 19: 71
- 20 to 49: 38
- 50 or more: 11
- Mobile homes: 151
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,000
Housing units in Tuscola township with a mortgage: 790 (34 second mortgage, 62 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 604
- Construction (12%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tuscola township:
- German (29.9%)
- United States or American (15.9%)
- English (13.9%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Scottish (4.3%)
- Norwegian (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (27%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (26%)
- Germany (17%)
- Canada (8%)
- Iran (7%)
- El Salvador (7%)
- Hungary (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,214 (84%)
- Carpooled: 236 (9%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 40 (2%)
- Worked at home: 141 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
89 people in nursing homes
11 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
97.0% of residents of Tuscola township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (46% speak English very well, 54% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (48% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,234- In family households: 4,414 (1,261 male householders, 254 female householders)
1,231 spouses, 1,525 children (1,340 natural, 32 adopted, 153 stepchildren), 72 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 16 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 820 (249 male householders (190 living alone)), 468 female householders (444 living alone)), 103 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 100 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 764 2-persons, 320 3-persons, 278 4-persons, 100 5-persons, 47 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 634 1-person, 69 2-persons, 14 3-persons,
1,015 married couples with children.
247 single-parent households (64 men, 183 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
| Here: | 4.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |