Vandalia township, Fayette County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Vandalia township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
45% of Vandalia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6936
- Northeast: 67
- Midwest: 489
- South: 445
- West: 71
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $56,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Vandalia township, Illinois:
- 1,437 people in state prisons
- 111 people in nursing homes
- 82 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 82 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 31 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 16 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,397
- One, attached: 41
- Two: 62
- 3 or 4: 178
- 5 to 9: 76
- 10 to 19: 10
- 20 to 49: 32
- 50 or more: 43
- Mobile homes: 195
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,200
Housing units in Vandalia township with a mortgage: 970 (87 second mortgage, 68 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 775
- Public administration (14%)
- Construction (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Vandalia township:
- German (32.7%)
- United States or American (23.2%)
- English (12.7%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (38%)
- Korea (21%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Other Northern Europe (13%)
- Polynesia (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,745 (86%)
- Carpooled: 298 (9%)
- Ferryboat: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 55 (2%)
- Other means: 31 (1%)
- Worked at home: 44 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Vandalia township, Illinois:
- 1,437 people in state prisons
- 111 people in nursing homes
- 82 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 82 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 31 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 16 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
97.7% of residents of Vandalia township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,374- In family households: 5,217 (1,430 male householders, 372 female householders)
1,376 spouses, 1,753 children (1,592 natural, 33 adopted, 128 stepchildren), 91 grandchildren, 50 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 15 other relatives, 107 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,157 (396 male householders (317 living alone)), 619 female householders (596 living alone)), 142 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,734 (1,707 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 898 2-persons, 401 3-persons, 317 4-persons, 130 5-persons, 40 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 913 1-person, 86 2-persons, 12 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
1,057 married couples with children.
381 single-parent households (107 men, 274 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 2.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 2.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 12.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |