Plato township, Kane County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (45% naturalized citizens)
Plato township: | 2.7% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
71% of Plato 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, 75% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3175
- Northeast: 145
- Midwest: 365
- South: 105
- West: 129
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,272
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 24
- 20 to 49: 7
Housing units in Plato township with a mortgage: 830 (42 second mortgage, 206 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 204
- Construction (17%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (3%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Other financial specialists (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plato township:
- German (35.3%)
- Italian (10.2%)
- English (9.1%)
- Polish (6.0%)
- United States or American (5.9%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- Swedish (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guatemala (38%)
- Germany (18%)
- Mexico (18%)
- Pakistan (13%)
- Greece (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,764 (85%)
- Carpooled: 104 (5%)
- Railroad: 53 (3%)
- Walked: 49 (2%)
- Worked at home: 107 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
95.9% of residents of Plato township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (36% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 39% don't speak English at all).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,045- In family households: 3,852 (1,027 male householders, 87 female householders)
1,095 spouses, 1,414 children (1,369 natural, 28 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 85 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 50 other relatives, 81 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 193 (101 male householders (44 living alone)), 52 female householders (48 living alone)), 40 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 366 2-persons, 233 3-persons, 303 4-persons, 137 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 47 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 92 1-person, 61 2-persons,
1,013 married couples with children.
59 single-parent households (18 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 72
Here: | 11.6% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 41
Here: | 16.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 39
Here: | 19.7% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |