Buffalo township, Ogle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (29% naturalized citizens)
| Buffalo township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Buffalo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2477
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 183
- South: 102
- West: 51
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
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
61 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,061
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 81
- 3 or 4: 52
- 5 to 9: 11
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 37
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,500
Housing units in Buffalo township with a mortgage: 454 (25 second mortgage, 53 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 337
- Construction (12%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Buffalo township:
- German (44.5%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- English (8.3%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
- Dutch (4.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Polish (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (38%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (33%)
- Philippines (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,160 (81%)
- Carpooled: 121 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (1%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 80 (6%)
- Worked at home: 53 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (81%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
61 people in nursing homes
97.8% of residents of Buffalo township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 28% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (53% speak English very well, 47% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,792- In family households: 2,345 (627 male householders, 164 female householders)
659 spouses, 791 children (733 natural, 2 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 11 other relatives, 74 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 447 (174 male householders (152 living alone)), 237 female householders (227 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 63 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 345 2-persons, 193 3-persons, 181 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 24 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 379 1-person, 25 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
532 married couples with children.
151 single-parent households (35 men, 116 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
| Here: | 7.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |