Bremen township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Bremen township: | 5.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Bremen township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 87% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 87307
- Northeast: 1211
- Midwest: 5923
- South: 8115
- West: 960
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
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
People in group quarters in Bremen township, Illinois:
- 668 people in nursing homes
- 485 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 485 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 430 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 67 people in other group homes
- 33 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 28,062
- One, attached: 1,591
- Two: 661
- 3 or 4: 1,143
- 5 to 9: 2,898
- 10 to 19: 3,157
- 20 to 49: 1,033
- 50 or more: 813
- Mobile homes: 653
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,200
Housing units in Bremen township with a mortgage: 20,417 (2,246 second mortgage, 2,702 home equity loan, 95 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,824
- Construction (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bremen township:
- Irish (13.6%)
- German (12.8%)
- Polish (10.6%)
- Italian (7.0%)
- Dutch (2.5%)
- United States or American (2.1%)
- English (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (40%)
- Philippines (7%)
- India (6%)
- Germany (4%)
- Jordan (3%)
- Poland (3%)
- Pakistan (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 39,759 (77%)
- Carpooled: 5,212 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 506 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 15 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 366 (1%)
- Railroad: 3,496 (7%)
- Taxi: 25 (0%)
- Bicycle: 46 (0%)
- Walked: 586 (1%)
- Other means: 410 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,098 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (91%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Bremen township, Illinois:
- 668 people in nursing homes
- 485 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 485 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 430 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 67 people in other group homes
- 33 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
90.7% of residents of Bremen township speak English at home.
4.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (70% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (80% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 107,939- In family households: 95,442 (20,480 male householders, 7,650 female householders)
20,865 spouses, 36,527 children (33,754 natural, 935 adopted, 1,838 stepchildren), 3,498 grandchildren, 1,146 brothers or sisters, 940 parents, 2,244 other relatives, 2,092 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 12,497 (4,750 male householders (3,842 living alone)), 5,807 female householders (5,141 living alone)), 1,940 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,712 (1,158 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 9,697 2-persons, 6,680 3-persons, 6,264 4-persons, 3,274 5-persons, 1,433 6-persons, 782 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 8,983 1-person, 1,313 2-persons, 164 3-persons, 72 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
19,082 married couples with children.
6,644 single-parent households (1,331 men, 5,313 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,691
| Here: | 19.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 835
| Here: | 12.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,015
| Here: | 20.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |