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- Numbers all about Champaign
County:
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- More than one-third of residents
of Champaign County have government jobs (school districts,
University of Illinois, postal service, police and fire departments,
etc.). Of the 103,200 jobs in the county, 35,200 are in
government. About 11,200 are in health care and social
assistance. Only 9,500 are in manufacturing - down from
11,950 just 10 years ago.
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- There are 187 taxing districts
in the county (townships, school districts, cities and villages,
park districts, etc.), plus 216 drainage districts and drainage
subdistricts.
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- The number of farms in Champaign
County has declined from 1,997 in 1978 to 1,285 in 2002. The
average farm size in the county has increased from 308 acres
in 1978 to 449 acres in 2002.
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- The ratio of farmland to
total acreage in the county has dropped from 96.3% in 1976 to
90.5% in 2002.
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- Contruction of residential
housing units has more than doubled, on an annual basis, in
the last 10 years. In 1996, 499 housing units with an
overall value of $68 million were built. In 2005, 1,211
units were built with a value of $230.9 million
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- According to the Census
Bureau, the estimated population of Champaign County has grown
by 17,513 since 1996 - up from 167,392 to 184,905. But public
school enrollment has actually dropped - from 24,246 in 1996
to 24, 052 in 2005.
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- Since 1960, Champaign County's
population has grown by about 1% per year (from 132,436 to 179,669).
That's twice as fast as the statewide average, but only
about half the rate of McLean County (Bloomington-Normal). In
1990, the county has a population of 47,622.
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- From 1940 to 1988, the Republican
candidate won 12 of 13 presidential elections in Champaign County
(Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater in 1964) But the Democratic
candidate has won the county in the last four presidential elections.
On the other hand, the county votes consistently for Republican
candidate for governor every four years, even four years ago
when Democrat Rod Blagojevich was elected.
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- Fifteen years ago, Cunningham
and University avenues was the busiest intersection in Champaign
County with an average daily traffic count of 40,350. By
2001, the count at the intersection had dropped 4% while the
corner of Prospect Avenue and Bloomington Road had become the
No. 1 traffic intersection with an average daily count of49,050.
Every on of the dtop 25 intersection in the county in
2001 was in either Champaign or Urbana.
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- The intersection with the
greatest number of crashes in 2000 was Lincoln and University
avenues in Urbana.
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- Among school districts in
Champaign County, the Prairieview grad school district has the
lowest percentage of low-income students (2.2%) while the Rantoul
City Schools district, less than 10 miles away, has the highest
percentage (67.9%). The Champaign district is 36.4% low
income; Urbana is 51.6%
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- In 2002, the city of Champaign
had 63.1% of the retail sales volume in Champaign. Urbana
had 15.5%, Rantoul had 6.3% and Savoy had 5.5%.
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- The average work commute
for a Champaign County resident is 16.8 minutes. Most
of the county's work force lives in the county, buty according
to the 2000 Census Bureau study, workers commuted from as far
away as DuPage and St. Clair counties.
- The percentage of county
residents born in a foreign country has grown from about 3%
in 1970 to 8% in 2000. 58% of those foreign-born were
from Asian nations, 19% from Europe and 14% from Latin America.
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- The Carle Foundation is
the biggest taxpayer in Champaign County, with an equalized
assessed valuation of $43.6 million, or 1.69% of the total assessed
valuation in the county. No. 2 is Campus Property Management,
with a $30.8 million EA
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