Flora township, Boone County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Flora township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
27% of Flora township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% 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: 1177
- Northeast: 60
- Midwest: 300
- South: 196
- West: 126
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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
113 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 596
- One, attached: 23
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 70
- 5 to 9: 27
- Mobile homes: 27
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,900
Housing units in Flora township with a mortgage: 382 (23 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 76
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Construction (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Flora township:
- United States or American (27.2%)
- German (19.6%)
- Irish (16.4%)
- English (9.4%)
- Swedish (3.8%)
- Italian (3.4%)
- Danish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (53%)
- Germany (47%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 767 (86%)
- Carpooled: 121 (14%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (3%)
113 people in nursing homes
97.9% of residents of Flora township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,886- In family households: 1,679 (471 male householders, 108 female householders)
437 spouses, 637 children (562 natural, 17 adopted, 58 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 207 (44 male householders (30 living alone)), 118 female householders (103 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 275 2-persons, 95 3-persons, 174 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 133 1-person, 15 2-persons, 14 3-persons,
334 married couples with children.
93 single-parent households (34 men, 59 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
Here: | 4.2% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 4.6% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 85
Here: | 72.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |