Aroma township, Kankakee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (69% naturalized citizens)
Aroma township: | 2.6% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Aroma township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4467
- Northeast: 52
- Midwest: 515
- South: 502
- West: 51
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $80,700
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: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Aroma township, Illinois:
- 290 people in nursing homes
- 25 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 15 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,002
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 43
- 3 or 4: 26
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 6
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 38
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,300
Housing units in Aroma township with a mortgage: 1,041 (81 second mortgage, 138 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 547
- Construction (18%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Aroma township:
- German (22.1%)
- French (except Basque) (10.3%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- English (5.9%)
- Italian (5.3%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
- Polish (5.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (40%)
- Germany (12%)
- Korea (7%)
- Philippines (6%)
- Poland (6%)
- Austria (5%)
- Greece (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,090 (84%)
- Carpooled: 290 (12%)
- Railroad: 14 (1%)
- Walked: 26 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 64 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Aroma township, Illinois:
- 290 people in nursing homes
- 25 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 15 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
93.5% of residents of Aroma township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,434- In family households: 4,905 (1,301 male householders, 336 female householders)
1,376 spouses, 1,569 children (1,408 natural, 98 adopted, 63 stepchildren), 130 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 37 other relatives, 143 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 529 (195 male householders (164 living alone)), 250 female householders (215 living alone)), 84 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 336 (300 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 788 2-persons, 368 3-persons, 281 4-persons, 117 5-persons, 60 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 379 1-person, 56 2-persons, 7 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
941 married couples with children.
294 single-parent households (52 men, 242 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 212
Here: | 36.7% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 98
Here: | 32.2% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 47
Here: | 22.5% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |