Downers Grove township, DuPage County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Downers Grove township: | 13.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
63% of Downers Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 101406
- Northeast: 5246
- Midwest: 13239
- South: 4996
- West: 2645
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $236,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
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
People in group quarters in Downers Grove township, Illinois:
- 1,244 people in nursing homes
- 76 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 64 people in other group homes
- 58 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 35 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 26 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 36,770
- One, attached: 4,734
- Two: 505
- 3 or 4: 2,005
- 5 to 9: 3,885
- 10 to 19: 4,067
- 20 to 49: 3,902
- 50 or more: 2,621
- Mobile homes: 26
Median worth of mobile homes: $625,000
Housing units in Downers Grove township with a mortgage: 28,341 (2,214 second mortgage, 5,137 home equity loan, 47 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 9,312
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Downers Grove township:
- German (15.3%)
- Irish (13.7%)
- Polish (12.1%)
- Italian (9.7%)
- English (5.6%)
- Czech (3.5%)
- United States or American (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (20%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Mexico (9%)
- Poland (8%)
- Other Eastern Europe (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Korea (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 59,191 (78%)
- Carpooled: 4,625 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 179 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 111 (0%)
- Railroad: 6,512 (9%)
- Taxi: 61 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (0%)
- Bicycle: 244 (0%)
- Walked: 1,368 (2%)
- Other means: 273 (0%)
- Worked at home: 3,105 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (90%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Downers Grove township, Illinois:
- 1,244 people in nursing homes
- 76 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 64 people in other group homes
- 58 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 35 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 26 people in religious group quarters
82.1% of residents of Downers Grove township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
8.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
5.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (69% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 146,603- In family households: 127,481 (32,803 male householders, 7,337 female householders)
34,734 spouses, 46,761 children (44,394 natural, 1,296 adopted, 1,071 stepchildren), 1,002 grandchildren, 1,013 brothers or sisters, 1,139 parents, 1,657 other relatives, 1,035 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 19,122 (6,859 male householders (5,577 living alone)), 9,607 female householders (8,677 living alone)), 2,656 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,507 (1,244 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 16,214 2-persons, 8,866 3-persons, 9,020 4-persons, 4,227 5-persons, 1,308 6-persons, 505 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 14,254 1-person, 1,913 2-persons, 198 3-persons, 69 4-persons, 32 5-persons,
32,066 married couples with children.
4,428 single-parent households (812 men, 3,616 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,860
| Here: | 16.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 998
| Here: | 11.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,834
| Here: | 30.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |