Oswego township, Kendall County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Oswego township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
50% of Oswego township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 27% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 20946
- Northeast: 934
- Midwest: 2938
- South: 1482
- West: 557
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $158,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
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
77 people in nursing homes
2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,024
- One, attached: 1,050
- Two: 154
- 3 or 4: 261
- 5 to 9: 153
- 10 to 19: 291
- 20 to 49: 272
- 50 or more: 37
Housing units in Oswego township with a mortgage: 6,713 (722 second mortgage, 857 home equity loan, 28 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,329
- Construction (13%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oswego township:
- German (26.9%)
- Irish (13.9%)
- English (7.0%)
- Polish (6.7%)
- Italian (6.6%)
- United States or American (4.9%)
- Norwegian (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (43%)
- India (6%)
- Canada (5%)
- Other Western Europe (5%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Poland (4%)
- Germany (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 12,276 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,289 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 20 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Railroad: 413 (3%)
- Taxi: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 33 (0%)
- Walked: 132 (1%)
- Other means: 24 (0%)
- Worked at home: 666 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (92%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
77 people in nursing homes
2 people in religious group quarters
91.2% of residents of Oswego township speak English at home.
5.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (82% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 28,346- In family households: 25,866 (6,703 male householders, 1,142 female householders)
6,860 spouses, 10,101 children (9,388 natural, 245 adopted, 468 stepchildren), 221 grandchildren, 145 brothers or sisters, 130 parents, 281 other relatives, 283 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,480 (913 male householders (670 living alone)), 1,086 female householders (930 living alone)), 481 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 77 (75 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,811 2-persons, 1,712 3-persons, 2,015 4-persons, 910 5-persons, 294 6-persons, 103 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,600 1-person, 334 2-persons, 65 3-persons,
7,003 married couples with children.
1,061 single-parent households (261 men, 800 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 321
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 61
| Here: | 3.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 295
| Here: | 25.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |