Whitmore township, Macon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Whitmore township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Whitmore township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3614
- Northeast: 87
- Midwest: 290
- South: 348
- West: 65
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
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
16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,357
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 2
- 5 to 9: 21
- 10 to 19: 6
- 50 or more: 51
- Mobile homes: 503
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Whitmore township with a mortgage: 800 (116 second mortgage, 100 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 369
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Food (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Whitmore township:
- German (22.2%)
- United States or American (20.2%)
- English (10.4%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (31%)
- Spain (20%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Mexico (16%)
- Middle Africa (14%)
- Germany (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,007 (89%)
- Carpooled: 192 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 39 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (1%)
16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
97.6% of residents of Whitmore township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,462- In family households: 3,974 (1,074 male householders, 181 female householders)
1,083 spouses, 1,385 children (1,171 natural, 142 adopted, 72 stepchildren), 108 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 23 other relatives, 98 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 488 (203 male householders (181 living alone)), 243 female householders (223 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 17 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 532 2-persons, 311 3-persons, 260 4-persons, 97 5-persons, 47 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 404 1-person, 37 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
831 married couples with children.
226 single-parent households (66 men, 160 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 62
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 57
| Here: | 34.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |