Oakwood township, Vermilion County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Oakwood township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
66% of Oakwood township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2862
- Northeast: 61
- Midwest: 313
- South: 118
- West: 65
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,065
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 35
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 5
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 292
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,100
Housing units in Oakwood township with a mortgage: 473 (38 second mortgage, 44 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 268
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oakwood township:
- German (22.0%)
- United States or American (20.9%)
- English (15.4%)
- Irish (13.3%)
- French (except Basque) (6.1%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Polish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Austria (50%)
- Japan (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,465 (86%)
- Carpooled: 155 (9%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 22 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 49 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (2%)
98.8% of residents of Oakwood township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,433- In family households: 2,965 (776 male householders, 234 female householders)
798 spouses, 1,005 children (894 natural, 22 adopted, 89 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 4 other relatives, 78 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 468 (171 male householders (123 living alone)), 203 female householders (181 living alone)), 94 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 452 2-persons, 258 3-persons, 206 4-persons, 76 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 304 1-person, 58 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 9 4-persons,
617 married couples with children.
199 single-parent households (45 men, 154 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |