Aurora township, Kane County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 24 (25% naturalized citizens)
| Aurora township: | 24.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
57% of Aurora township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 67699
- Northeast: 1656
- Midwest: 6771
- South: 7405
- West: 2234
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $117,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Aurora township, Illinois:
- 683 people in nursing homes
- 293 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 208 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 127 people in state prisons
- 121 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 109 people in religious group quarters
- 68 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 61 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 45 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 35 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 19 people in halfway houses
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 24,043
- One, attached: 2,003
- Two: 3,136
- 3 or 4: 2,606
- 5 to 9: 1,823
- 10 to 19: 1,492
- 20 to 49: 1,174
- 50 or more: 2,049
- Mobile homes: 429
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,600
Housing units in Aurora township with a mortgage: 16,401 (1,523 second mortgage, 2,060 home equity loan, 65 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,215
- Construction (13%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Aurora township:
- German (13.3%)
- Irish (4.8%)
- English (3.6%)
- United States or American (3.5%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- Polish (2.1%)
- Swedish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (88%)
- Germany (1%)
- El Salvador (1%)
- Greece (1%)
- India (1%)
- Canada (1%)
- Laos (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 36,486 (73%)
- Carpooled: 9,269 (18%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 863 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 68 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 45 (0%)
- Railroad: 606 (1%)
- Taxi: 41 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 34 (0%)
- Bicycle: 159 (0%)
- Walked: 1,011 (2%)
- Other means: 584 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,058 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Aurora township, Illinois:
- 683 people in nursing homes
- 293 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 208 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 127 people in state prisons
- 121 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 109 people in religious group quarters
- 68 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 61 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 45 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 35 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 19 people in halfway houses
59.7% of residents of Aurora township speak English at home.
37.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (62% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (46% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 27% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 113,771- In family households: 101,335 (20,341 male householders, 6,643 female householders)
19,873 spouses, 39,961 children (37,546 natural, 847 adopted, 1,568 stepchildren), 2,481 grandchildren, 2,588 brothers or sisters, 966 parents, 4,952 other relatives, 3,530 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 12,436 (4,893 male householders (3,912 living alone)), 5,242 female householders (4,450 living alone)), 2,301 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,782 (906 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,890 2-persons, 5,931 3-persons, 5,740 4-persons, 3,538 5-persons, 1,965 6-persons, 1,920 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 8,362 1-person, 1,473 2-persons, 184 3-persons, 67 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
22,454 married couples with children.
8,266 single-parent households (2,014 men, 6,252 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,347
| Here: | 15.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 750
| Here: | 11.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,153
| Here: | 29.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |