Newport township, Lake County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Newport township: | 4.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
71% of Newport township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2928
- Northeast: 148
- Midwest: 578
- South: 177
- West: 74
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $208,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,396
- One, attached: 30
- Two: 27
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 18
- 10 to 19: 4
Housing units in Newport township with a mortgage: 854 (65 second mortgage, 132 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 294
- Construction (13%)
- Chemicals (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (10%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Construction (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Newport township:
- German (24.3%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- English (10.5%)
- Polish (8.5%)
- Italian (5.3%)
- Swedish (3.9%)
- Scottish (3.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Poland (13%)
- Germany (10%)
- Other Eastern Europe (9%)
- Canada (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- India (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,969 (88%)
- Carpooled: 109 (5%)
- Railroad: 19 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 96 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (91%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
93.8% of residents of Newport township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,120- In family households: 3,835 (991 male householders, 206 female householders)
1,058 spouses, 1,367 children (1,267 natural, 55 adopted, 45 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 28 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 30 other relatives, 59 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 285 (142 male householders (128 living alone)), 100 female householders (73 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 467 2-persons, 266 3-persons, 268 4-persons, 139 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 201 1-person, 38 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
939 married couples with children.
80 single-parent households (28 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 174
| Here: | 34.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 62
| Here: | 21.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 10.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |