Big Grove township, Kendall County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (68% naturalized citizens)
| Big Grove township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Big Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1287
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 139
- South: 32
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $116,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
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: 526
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 6
Housing units in Big Grove township with a mortgage: 233 (18 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 123
- Construction (24%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- U. S. Postal service (3%)
- Carpenters (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Grove township:
- Norwegian (33.8%)
- German (19.3%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- English (7.8%)
- Italian (6.0%)
- United States or American (5.9%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (25%)
- Yugoslavia (21%)
- United Kingdom (14%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (11%)
- Germany (7%)
- Russia (7%)
- Other Eastern Africa (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 674 (82%)
- Carpooled: 49 (6%)
- Railroad: 9 (1%)
- Walked: 18 (2%)
- Worked at home: 71 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.4% of residents of Big Grove township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,526- In family households: 1,405 (385 male householders, 44 female householders)
385 spouses, 529 children (479 natural, 7 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 16 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 121 (43 male householders (39 living alone)), 68 female householders (63 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 164 2-persons, 85 3-persons, 91 4-persons, 67 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 102 1-person, 7 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
343 married couples with children.
39 single-parent households (10 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 18.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |