Walnut township, Bureau County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (68% naturalized citizens)
| Walnut township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
71% of Walnut 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, 78% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1644
- Northeast: 19
- Midwest: 103
- South: 46
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
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
57 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 668
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 14
- 3 or 4: 22
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 17
- Mobile homes: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Walnut township with a mortgage: 259 (25 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 241
- Construction (16%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Walnut township:
- German (40.2%)
- English (10.3%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- Swedish (8.5%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- Polish (3.8%)
- Danish (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (37%)
- United Kingdom (21%)
- Canada (21%)
- Other Western Europe (11%)
- Korea (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 704 (80%)
- Carpooled: 69 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (6%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 39 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
57 people in nursing homes
97.8% of residents of Walnut township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,800- In family households: 1,595 (438 male householders, 64 female householders)
459 spouses, 566 children (496 natural, 8 adopted, 62 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 205 (81 male householders (69 living alone)), 109 female householders (106 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 57 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 232 2-persons, 101 3-persons, 95 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 175 1-person, 13 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
357 married couples with children.
92 single-parent households (25 men, 67 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
| Here: | 0.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 18.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |