Wauponsee township, Grundy County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (0% naturalized citizens)
Wauponsee township: | 3.8% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Wauponsee township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2011
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 209
- South: 116
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 793
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 15
- Mobile homes: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,000
Housing units in Wauponsee township with a mortgage: 460 (28 second mortgage, 107 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 212
- Construction (17%)
- Utilities (17%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Electricians (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wauponsee township:
- German (23.3%)
- Irish (13.0%)
- Italian (11.3%)
- English (10.1%)
- United States or American (8.6%)
- Norwegian (7.9%)
- Polish (4.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (81%)
- Russia (14%)
- Germany (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,087 (89%)
- Carpooled: 82 (7%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
94.3% of residents of Wauponsee township speak English at home.
4.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 23% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,476- In family households: 2,376 (657 male householders, 93 female householders)
674 spouses, 824 children (744 natural, 24 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 37 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 100 (59 male householders (59 living alone)), 41 female householders (41 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 297 2-persons, 174 3-persons, 166 4-persons, 77 5-persons, 31 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 100 1-person,
605 married couples with children.
76 single-parent households (30 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 38
Here: | 12.8% |
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: 18
Here: | 24.3% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |