McLeansboro township, Hamilton County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (32% naturalized citizens)
McLeansboro township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
56% of McLeansboro township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3081
- Northeast: 33
- Midwest: 472
- South: 268
- West: 52
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
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: 0.2% of all households
161 people in nursing homes
19 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,419
- One, attached: 30
- Two: 70
- 3 or 4: 43
- 5 to 9: 36
- 10 to 19: 21
- 50 or more: 7
- Mobile homes: 262
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,800
Housing units in McLeansboro township with a mortgage: 403 (18 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 577
- Construction (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (33%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in McLeansboro township:
- United States or American (29.7%)
- German (20.2%)
- English (13.6%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- French (except Basque) (3.7%)
- Polish (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,209 (79%)
- Carpooled: 244 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (1%)
- Walked: 21 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 44 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (3%)
161 people in nursing homes
19 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.6% of residents of McLeansboro township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,753- In family households: 3,122 (819 male householders, 247 female householders)
855 spouses, 1,027 children (904 natural, 18 adopted, 105 stepchildren), 41 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 66 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 631 (182 male householders (157 living alone)), 406 female householders (394 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 183 (162 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 544 2-persons, 232 3-persons, 161 4-persons, 91 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 551 1-person, 34 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
622 married couples with children.
210 single-parent households (57 men, 153 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 55
Here: | 14.2% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 23
Here: | 11.7% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
Here: | 6.9% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |