Kingston township, DeKalb County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Kingston township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
55% of Kingston township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% 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: 2090
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 234
- South: 99
- West: 59
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
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: 0.3% of all households
16 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 808
- One, attached: 46
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 24
- Mobile homes: 9
Housing units in Kingston township with a mortgage: 511 (43 second mortgage, 109 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 133
- Construction (19%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Health care (8%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kingston township:
- German (31.3%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- English (8.1%)
- Polish (6.6%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- Swedish (5.0%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (55%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Ireland (13%)
- Italy (11%)
- Greece (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,213 (87%)
- Carpooled: 104 (7%)
- Railroad: 4 (0%)
- Taxi: 1 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 28 (2%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 36 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (66%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (2%)
16 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
94.3% of residents of Kingston township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,557- In family households: 2,346 (628 male householders, 103 female householders)
629 spouses, 885 children (837 natural, 21 adopted, 27 stepchildren), 34 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 6 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 211 (85 male householders (69 living alone)), 86 female householders (73 living alone)), 40 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 16 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 296 2-persons, 123 3-persons, 183 4-persons, 89 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 142 1-person, 23 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
652 married couples with children.
86 single-parent households (32 men, 54 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 3.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |