Somonauk township, DeKalb County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (76% naturalized citizens)
| Somonauk township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Somonauk township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 28% 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: 1398
- Northeast: 32
- Midwest: 170
- South: 62
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $129,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 560
- One, attached: 28
- Two: 37
- 3 or 4: 36
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 2
Housing units in Somonauk township with a mortgage: 308 (8 second mortgage, 56 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 136
- Construction (20%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Somonauk township:
- German (29.7%)
- United States or American (10.1%)
- Norwegian (7.6%)
- English (7.4%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- French (except Basque) (7.0%)
- Swedish (5.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (52%)
- Mexico (29%)
- Germany (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 775 (84%)
- Carpooled: 58 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (2%)
- Other means: 17 (2%)
- Worked at home: 50 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Wood (1%)
96.7% of residents of Somonauk township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,727- In family households: 1,523 (427 male householders, 60 female householders)
444 spouses, 537 children (510 natural, 6 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 1 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 204 (77 male householders (63 living alone)), 89 female householders (83 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 204 2-persons, 93 3-persons, 125 4-persons, 49 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 146 1-person, 8 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 5 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
410 married couples with children.
73 single-parent households (25 men, 48 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 3.0% |
| 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: 14
| Here: | 18.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |