Wayne township, DuPage County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 15 (51% naturalized citizens)
| Wayne township: | 15.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Wayne township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% 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: 43768
- Northeast: 1686
- Midwest: 4755
- South: 2060
- West: 1218
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $198,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
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 Wayne township, Illinois:
- 108 people in nursing homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 15,356
- One, attached: 3,530
- 3 or 4: 188
- 5 to 9: 104
- 10 to 19: 188
- 20 to 49: 469
- 50 or more: 132
- Mobile homes: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $145,300
Housing units in Wayne township with a mortgage: 16,096 (1,502 second mortgage, 2,581 home equity loan, 61 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,489
- Construction (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wayne township:
- German (18.5%)
- Italian (14.8%)
- Polish (11.2%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- English (3.5%)
- United States or American (2.9%)
- Swedish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (23%)
- India (19%)
- Philippines (12%)
- Poland (8%)
- Pakistan (5%)
- Italy (4%)
- Korea (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 27,929 (83%)
- Carpooled: 2,577 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 57 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 32 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 42 (0%)
- Railroad: 1,506 (4%)
- Taxi: 27 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 21 (0%)
- Bicycle: 47 (0%)
- Walked: 113 (0%)
- Other means: 183 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,079 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (97%)
- Electricity (3%)
People in group quarters in Wayne township, Illinois:
- 108 people in nursing homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in religious group quarters
78.2% of residents of Wayne township speak English at home.
7.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
10.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
3.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 63,656- In family households: 60,195 (14,714 male householders, 2,402 female householders)
15,503 spouses, 24,183 children (22,786 natural, 454 adopted, 943 stepchildren), 330 grandchildren, 629 brothers or sisters, 762 parents, 1,005 other relatives, 667 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,461 (1,404 male householders (1,013 living alone)), 1,234 female householders (995 living alone)), 823 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 120 (110 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,655 2-persons, 3,745 3-persons, 5,133 4-persons, 2,395 5-persons, 908 6-persons, 280 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,008 1-person, 537 2-persons, 46 3-persons, 35 4-persons, 12 5-persons,
18,131 married couples with children.
1,818 single-parent households (459 men, 1,359 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 855
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 269
| Here: | 7.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 781
| Here: | 30.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |