Camargo township, Douglas County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Camargo township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Camargo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3052
- Northeast: 40
- Midwest: 353
- South: 112
- West: 69
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
7 people in other group homes
4 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,292
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 33
- 3 or 4: 30
- 5 to 9: 8
- 20 to 49: 12
- Mobile homes: 126
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Camargo township with a mortgage: 532 (26 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 434
- Construction (13%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Rail transportation (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Camargo township:
- German (29.9%)
- United States or American (20.8%)
- English (12.4%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Scottish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (33%)
- Germany (24%)
- Yugoslavia (24%)
- India (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,433 (81%)
- Carpooled: 214 (12%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 50 (3%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 69 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Wood (1%)
7 people in other group homes
4 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.5% of residents of Camargo township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,642- In family households: 3,154 (874 male householders, 164 female householders)
849 spouses, 1,094 children (1,005 natural, 4 adopted, 85 stepchildren), 37 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 7 other relatives, 99 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 488 (163 male householders (117 living alone)), 245 female householders (237 living alone)), 80 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 451 2-persons, 231 3-persons, 241 4-persons, 76 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 354 1-person, 38 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 6 5-persons,
657 married couples with children.
201 single-parent households (64 men, 137 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 3.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 3.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |