Elgin township, Kane County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 20 (28% naturalized citizens)
| Elgin township: | 20.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
53% of Elgin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% 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: 55773
- Northeast: 1686
- Midwest: 7124
- South: 4292
- West: 1866
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $158,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
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
People in group quarters in Elgin township, Illinois:
- 862 people in nursing homes
- 494 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 257 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 243 people in state prisons
- 47 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 44 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 34 people in other group homes
- 32 people in halfway houses
- 23 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 18 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 4 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 18,261
- One, attached: 3,597
- Two: 2,490
- 3 or 4: 1,806
- 5 to 9: 2,213
- 10 to 19: 727
- 20 to 49: 655
- 50 or more: 662
- Mobile homes: 747
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,600
Housing units in Elgin township with a mortgage: 15,494 (1,276 second mortgage, 2,341 home equity loan, 65 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,456
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elgin township:
- German (19.0%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- Polish (5.0%)
- Italian (4.7%)
- English (4.2%)
- United States or American (3.4%)
- Swedish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (78%)
- Laos (3%)
- Philippines (2%)
- India (2%)
- Germany (1%)
- Syria (1%)
- Other Eastern Europe (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 35,192 (79%)
- Carpooled: 5,791 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 428 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 43 (0%)
- Railroad: 566 (1%)
- Taxi: 34 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 19 (0%)
- Bicycle: 87 (0%)
- Walked: 855 (2%)
- Other means: 230 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,077 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (91%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Elgin township, Illinois:
- 862 people in nursing homes
- 494 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 257 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 243 people in state prisons
- 47 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 44 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 34 people in other group homes
- 32 people in halfway houses
- 23 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 18 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 4 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
67.2% of residents of Elgin township speak English at home.
27.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (34% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (79% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 88,312- In family households: 78,017 (17,085 male householders, 4,790 female householders)
17,153 spouses, 29,608 children (27,778 natural, 738 adopted, 1,092 stepchildren), 1,425 grandchildren, 1,968 brothers or sisters, 835 parents, 2,651 other relatives, 2,502 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 10,295 (3,774 male householders (2,822 living alone)), 4,444 female householders (3,828 living alone)), 2,077 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,072 (1,382 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,184 2-persons, 4,855 3-persons, 4,737 4-persons, 2,660 5-persons, 1,302 6-persons, 1,137 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 6,650 1-person, 1,261 2-persons, 182 3-persons, 86 4-persons, 33 5-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
18,226 married couples with children.
5,031 single-parent households (1,116 men, 3,915 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,204
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 383
| Here: | 7.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,315
| Here: | 28.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |