Blackberry township, Kane County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Blackberry township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
55% of Blackberry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4337
- Northeast: 143
- Midwest: 866
- South: 296
- West: 165
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $277,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,818
- One, attached: 68
- Two: 52
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 36
- 20 to 49: 4
- 50 or more: 48
Housing units in Blackberry township with a mortgage: 1,355 (102 second mortgage, 308 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 263
- Construction (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blackberry township:
- German (30.3%)
- United States or American (12.2%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- English (7.4%)
- Swedish (6.0%)
- Italian (5.7%)
- Polish (5.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (22%)
- Pakistan (20%)
- Korea (18%)
- Germany (17%)
- France (7%)
- Italy (6%)
- Other Northern Europe (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,608 (82%)
- Carpooled: 179 (6%)
- Subway or elevated: 7 (0%)
- Railroad: 105 (3%)
- Bicycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 37 (1%)
- Other means: 37 (1%)
- Worked at home: 181 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (84%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.1% of residents of Blackberry township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,942- In family households: 5,603 (1,417 male householders, 264 female householders)
1,544 spouses, 2,194 children (2,042 natural, 88 adopted, 64 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 30 other relatives, 105 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 339 (151 male householders (142 living alone)), 164 female householders (150 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 575 2-persons, 363 3-persons, 446 4-persons, 234 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 292 1-person, 23 2-persons,
1,714 married couples with children.
140 single-parent households (35 men, 105 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
| Here: | 3.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 63
| Here: | 17.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 57
| Here: | 22.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |