Squaw Grove township, DeKalb County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Squaw Grove township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Squaw Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 30% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2228
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 243
- South: 124
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 817
- One, attached: 46
- Two: 73
- 3 or 4: 47
- 5 to 9: 32
- 10 to 19: 7
Housing units in Squaw Grove township with a mortgage: 488 (45 second mortgage, 75 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 191
- Construction (22%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Construction (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Squaw Grove township:
- German (33.6%)
- Irish (10.6%)
- English (7.1%)
- United States or American (6.8%)
- Polish (6.1%)
- Norwegian (5.3%)
- Swedish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (36%)
- Germany (32%)
- Mexico (20%)
- Cambodia (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,271 (85%)
- Carpooled: 104 (7%)
- Railroad: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 86 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.3% of residents of Squaw Grove township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (95% speak English very well, 5% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,698- In family households: 2,427 (653 male householders, 113 female householders)
638 spouses, 879 children (846 natural, 16 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 48 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 32 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 271 (102 male householders (84 living alone)), 121 female householders (89 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 313 2-persons, 165 3-persons, 167 4-persons, 90 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 173 1-person, 49 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
637 married couples with children.
91 single-parent households (21 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 2.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |