Batavia township, Kane County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Batavia township: | 5.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
54% of Batavia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 20214
- Northeast: 1165
- Midwest: 4101
- South: 1783
- West: 895
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $353,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Batavia township, Illinois:
- 295 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 92 people in nursing homes
- 51 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,170
- One, attached: 729
- Two: 482
- 3 or 4: 333
- 5 to 9: 304
- 10 to 19: 362
- 20 to 49: 260
- 50 or more: 119
- Mobile homes: 38
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,300
Housing units in Batavia township with a mortgage: 6,768 (553 second mortgage, 1,187 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,199
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Batavia township:
- German (26.4%)
- Irish (12.7%)
- Italian (6.7%)
- Polish (6.4%)
- English (6.4%)
- Swedish (5.5%)
- United States or American (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (33%)
- Canada (9%)
- Germany (7%)
- India (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- Laos (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 12,989 (85%)
- Carpooled: 888 (6%)
- Subway or elevated: 15 (0%)
- Railroad: 297 (2%)
- Ferryboat: 5 (0%)
- Taxi: 18 (0%)
- Bicycle: 67 (0%)
- Walked: 188 (1%)
- Other means: 106 (1%)
- Worked at home: 638 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (93%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Batavia township, Illinois:
- 295 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 92 people in nursing homes
- 51 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
90.4% of residents of Batavia township speak English at home.
5.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 29,690- In family households: 27,015 (6,734 male householders, 1,357 female householders)
7,162 spouses, 10,889 children (10,256 natural, 263 adopted, 370 stepchildren), 151 grandchildren, 139 brothers or sisters, 111 parents, 266 other relatives, 206 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,675 (1,053 male householders (828 living alone)), 1,226 female householders (1,087 living alone)), 396 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 447 (399 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,825 2-persons, 1,736 3-persons, 2,108 4-persons, 1,008 5-persons, 313 6-persons, 101 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,915 1-person, 345 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
7,909 married couples with children.
1,130 single-parent households (261 men, 869 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 690
| Here: | 15.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 329
| Here: | 17.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 189
| Here: | 19.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |