Cicero township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 44 (27% naturalized citizens)
| Cicero township: | 43.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
57% of Cicero township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 90% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 28% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 41489
- Northeast: 471
- Midwest: 1117
- South: 2240
- West: 1338
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $96,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
190 people in nursing homes
8 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,648
- One, attached: 675
- Two: 8,249
- 3 or 4: 3,749
- 5 to 9: 1,459
- 10 to 19: 1,114
- 20 to 49: 592
- 50 or more: 110
- Mobile homes: 44
Median worth of mobile homes: $142,500
Housing units in Cicero township with a mortgage: 5,332 (454 second mortgage, 453 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,415
- Construction (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Health care (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cicero township:
- Polish (4.4%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- German (2.5%)
- Irish (2.4%)
- Czech (1.8%)
- United States or American (1.7%)
- English (0.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (90%)
- Guatemala (1%)
- Philippines (1%)
- Poland (1%)
- Colombia (1%)
- El Salvador (1%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 17,086 (57%)
- Carpooled: 7,840 (26%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,674 (6%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 40 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 871 (3%)
- Railroad: 254 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 29 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 83 (0%)
- Walked: 1,094 (4%)
- Other means: 412 (1%)
- Worked at home: 323 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (93%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
190 people in nursing homes
8 people in religious group quarters
25.6% of residents of Cicero township speak English at home.
70.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
3.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (65% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 85,419- In family households: 79,236 (13,808 male householders, 4,425 female householders)
13,430 spouses, 33,560 children (31,909 natural, 483 adopted, 1,168 stepchildren), 2,201 grandchildren, 2,669 brothers or sisters, 1,176 parents, 4,777 other relatives, 3,190 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 6,183 (2,587 male householders (1,971 living alone)), 2,304 female householders (2,077 living alone)), 1,292 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 197 (189 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,411 2-persons, 3,467 3-persons, 3,898 4-persons, 3,202 5-persons, 2,079 6-persons, 2,176 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 4,048 1-person, 583 2-persons, 133 3-persons, 55 4-persons, 67 5-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
20,353 married couples with children.
5,253 single-parent households (1,582 men, 3,671 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,427
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 481
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 657
| Here: | 21.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |