Brown township, Champaign County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (39% naturalized citizens)
| Brown township: | 4.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
41% of Brown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2249
- Northeast: 60
- Midwest: 270
- South: 164
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
People in group quarters in Brown township, Illinois:
- 1,049 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 141 people in nursing homes
- 97 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 84 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 47 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 33 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 20 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 510
- One, attached: 7
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 54
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,300
Housing units in Brown township with a mortgage: 235 (20 second mortgage, 24 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 148
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Health care (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brown township:
- German (27.0%)
- English (11.7%)
- United States or American (11.4%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Polish (2.7%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- Dutch (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (14%)
- Taiwan (13%)
- Germany (7%)
- Philippines (7%)
- Africa, n.e.c. (7%)
- Mexico (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 682 (53%)
- Carpooled: 192 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 120 (9%)
- Bicycle: 20 (2%)
- Walked: 198 (15%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 67 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (2%)
People in group quarters in Brown township, Illinois:
- 1,049 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 141 people in nursing homes
- 97 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 84 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 47 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 33 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 20 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
88.7% of residents of Brown township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
4.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (69% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,493- In family households: 1,347 (366 male householders, 70 female householders)
361 spouses, 485 children (441 natural, 10 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 16 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 146 (71 male householders (53 living alone)), 60 female householders (60 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,473 (144 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 198 2-persons, 101 3-persons, 82 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 113 1-person, 18 2-persons,
319 married couples with children.
59 single-parent households (26 men, 33 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 15.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 0.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |