Sugar Grove township, Kane County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Sugar Grove township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
54% of Sugar Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6956
- Northeast: 333
- Midwest: 1269
- South: 471
- West: 160
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $124,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
185 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,884
- One, attached: 429
- Two: 14
- 3 or 4: 30
- 5 to 9: 48
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 16
Housing units in Sugar Grove township with a mortgage: 2,320 (251 second mortgage, 371 home equity loan, 14 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 538
- Construction (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (2%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sugar Grove township:
- German (27.6%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Italian (8.2%)
- English (7.4%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Swedish (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (29%)
- Vietnam (11%)
- Other Eastern Europe (10%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Germany (7%)
- Pakistan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,296 (85%)
- Carpooled: 232 (5%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 19 (0%)
- Railroad: 107 (2%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 14 (0%)
- Other means: 31 (1%)
- Worked at home: 335 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (94%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
185 people in nursing homes
92.1% of residents of Sugar Grove township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,532- In family households: 8,782 (2,346 male householders, 385 female householders)
2,500 spouses, 3,244 children (2,990 natural, 181 adopted, 73 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 54 brothers or sisters, 45 parents, 111 other relatives, 85 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 750 (305 male householders (234 living alone)), 271 female householders (230 living alone)), 174 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 184 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,152 2-persons, 550 3-persons, 608 4-persons, 281 5-persons, 97 6-persons, 43 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 464 1-person, 90 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 5 4-persons, 11 6-persons,
2,266 married couples with children.
216 single-parent households (68 men, 148 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 243
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 115
| Here: | 21.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 132
| Here: | 25.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |