Auburn township, Sangamon County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (71% naturalized citizens)
Auburn township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
53% of Auburn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5044
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 508
- South: 225
- West: 169
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
61 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,045
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 50
- 3 or 4: 36
- 5 to 9: 25
- 20 to 49: 51
- Mobile homes: 207
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,800
Housing units in Auburn township with a mortgage: 1,181 (126 second mortgage, 115 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 444
- Construction (12%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Public administration (15%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Auburn township:
- German (32.4%)
- United States or American (11.9%)
- English (10.7%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- Italian (7.8%)
- French (except Basque) (4.1%)
- Swedish (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Taiwan (26%)
- Mexico (26%)
- United Kingdom (19%)
- Korea (14%)
- Germany (12%)
- Philippines (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,478 (80%)
- Carpooled: 421 (14%)
- Taxi: 21 (1%)
- Walked: 46 (1%)
- Other means: 31 (1%)
- Worked at home: 95 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Wood (1%)
61 people in nursing homes
95.5% of residents of Auburn township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,009- In family households: 5,194 (1,352 male householders, 293 female householders)
1,429 spouses, 1,964 children (1,844 natural, 31 adopted, 89 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 38 other relatives, 80 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 815 (226 male householders (166 living alone)), 398 female householders (337 living alone)), 191 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 62 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 641 2-persons, 379 3-persons, 400 4-persons, 148 5-persons, 60 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 503 1-person, 70 2-persons, 20 3-persons, 15 4-persons, 16 5-persons,
1,321 married couples with children.
359 single-parent households (82 men, 277 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 56
Here: | 6.0% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
Here: | 3.2% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
Here: | 13.3% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |