Oregon-Nashua township, Ogle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (72% naturalized citizens)
| Oregon-Nashua township: | 4.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Oregon-Nashua township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 91% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3996
- Northeast: 52
- Midwest: 611
- South: 225
- West: 66
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
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
People in group quarters in Oregon-Nashua township, Illinois:
- 82 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 82 people in nursing homes
- 22 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,766
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 152
- 3 or 4: 119
- 5 to 9: 90
- 10 to 19: 35
- 20 to 49: 94
- Mobile homes: 31
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,700
Housing units in Oregon-Nashua township with a mortgage: 708 (61 second mortgage, 103 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 581
- Construction (11%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oregon-Nashua township:
- German (35.6%)
- English (12.3%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- United States or American (10.2%)
- Italian (4.7%)
- Swedish (4.7%)
- Norwegian (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (26%)
- Mexico (24%)
- Italy (13%)
- Korea (8%)
- Other Eastern Europe (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- India (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,924 (80%)
- Carpooled: 223 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 140 (6%)
- Worked at home: 107 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Oregon-Nashua township, Illinois:
- 82 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 82 people in nursing homes
- 22 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
94.9% of residents of Oregon-Nashua township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (51% speak English very well, 49% speak English well).
0.4% 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: 4,974- In family households: 4,133 (1,101 male householders, 305 female householders)
1,150 spouses, 1,323 children (1,177 natural, 36 adopted, 110 stepchildren), 55 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 30 other relatives, 149 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 841 (387 male householders (325 living alone)), 358 female householders (315 living alone)), 96 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 187 (163 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 673 2-persons, 345 3-persons, 251 4-persons, 93 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 640 1-person, 105 2-persons,
864 married couples with children.
309 single-parent households (88 men, 221 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 1.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |