Rantoul township, Champaign County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Rantoul township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
46% of Rantoul township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7773
- Northeast: 321
- Midwest: 1199
- South: 1202
- West: 374
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $61,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.2%
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
4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,613
- One, attached: 620
- Two: 364
- 3 or 4: 606
- 5 to 9: 324
- 10 to 19: 88
- 20 to 49: 63
- 50 or more: 224
- Mobile homes: 447
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Rantoul township with a mortgage: 1,434 (217 second mortgage, 99 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 707
- Construction (11%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rantoul township:
- German (26.3%)
- United States or American (11.9%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- English (7.1%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- Polish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (19%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- Japan (9%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Other Eastern Africa (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Laos (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,575 (79%)
- Carpooled: 818 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 19 (0%)
- Taxi: 22 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 32 (1%)
- Walked: 101 (2%)
- Other means: 74 (1%)
- Worked at home: 126 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
4 people in religious group quarters
95.3% of residents of Rantoul township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,367- In family households: 9,360 (2,150 male householders, 820 female householders)
2,159 spouses, 3,594 children (2,981 natural, 199 adopted, 414 stepchildren), 122 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 128 other relatives, 318 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,007 (763 male householders (554 living alone)), 864 female householders (770 living alone)), 380 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,184 2-persons, 722 3-persons, 592 4-persons, 334 5-persons, 109 6-persons, 29 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,324 1-person, 259 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 10 5-persons,
1,906 married couples with children.
970 single-parent households (223 men, 747 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 173
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |