Calumet township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Calumet township: | 13.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
61% of Calumet township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 89% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 36% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15759
- Northeast: 150
- Midwest: 626
- South: 2541
- West: 185
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,300
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: 0.3% of all households
11 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,809
- One, attached: 476
- Two: 762
- 3 or 4: 535
- 5 to 9: 1,083
- 10 to 19: 1,026
- 20 to 49: 332
- 50 or more: 61
- Mobile homes: 163
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Calumet township with a mortgage: 2,530 (323 second mortgage, 235 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 849
- Construction (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Calumet township:
- German (4.2%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- Irish (2.8%)
- Polish (2.7%)
- African (1.5%)
- United States or American (1.2%)
- English (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (83%)
- Italy (4%)
- Guatemala (3%)
- Other Central America (1%)
- Ecuador (1%)
- Nigeria (1%)
- Jamaica (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,475 (61%)
- Carpooled: 1,671 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 449 (5%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 7 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 205 (2%)
- Railroad: 768 (9%)
- Bicycle: 17 (0%)
- Walked: 287 (3%)
- Other means: 49 (1%)
- Worked at home: 72 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
11 people in other group homes
74.9% of residents of Calumet township speak English at home.
22.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (51% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (53% speak English very well, 47% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 22,363- In family households: 19,635 (3,218 male householders, 2,186 female householders)
3,028 spouses, 8,046 children (7,652 natural, 74 adopted, 320 stepchildren), 933 grandchildren, 535 brothers or sisters, 230 parents, 687 other relatives, 772 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,728 (1,158 male householders (965 living alone)), 1,149 female householders (1,036 living alone)), 421 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,633 2-persons, 1,395 3-persons, 1,025 4-persons, 702 5-persons, 356 6-persons, 293 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,001 1-person, 218 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 24 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
3,098 married couples with children.
2,696 single-parent households (385 men, 2,311 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 359
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 66
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 250
| Here: | 21.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |