Joliet township, Will County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (26% naturalized citizens)
| Joliet township: | 13.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
56% of Joliet township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 60883
- Northeast: 808
- Midwest: 3944
- South: 7801
- West: 1292
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $91,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
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 Joliet township, Illinois:
- 1,458 people in nursing homes
- 1,327 people in state prisons
- 328 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 307 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 279 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
- 163 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 73 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 38 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 2 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 20,560
- One, attached: 1,036
- Two: 3,282
- 3 or 4: 1,997
- 5 to 9: 1,210
- 10 to 19: 1,723
- 20 to 49: 845
- 50 or more: 1,417
- Mobile homes: 279
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,700
Housing units in Joliet township with a mortgage: 10,992 (1,259 second mortgage, 1,292 home equity loan, 33 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,690
- Construction (13%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Joliet township:
- German (10.5%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- Italian (6.3%)
- Polish (4.0%)
- United States or American (3.3%)
- English (3.0%)
- Swedish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (84%)
- Philippines (2%)
- Yugoslavia (1%)
- Poland (1%)
- India (1%)
- Germany (1%)
- Italy (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 27,698 (78%)
- Carpooled: 5,123 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 378 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 20 (0%)
- Railroad: 350 (1%)
- Taxi: 25 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 14 (0%)
- Bicycle: 91 (0%)
- Walked: 849 (2%)
- Other means: 490 (1%)
- Worked at home: 457 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Joliet township, Illinois:
- 1,458 people in nursing homes
- 1,327 people in state prisons
- 328 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 307 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 279 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
- 163 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 73 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 38 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 2 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other group homes
77.6% of residents of Joliet township speak English at home.
19.4% 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).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (88% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 82,505- In family households: 70,191 (14,434 male householders, 5,859 female householders)
14,142 spouses, 26,962 children (25,011 natural, 450 adopted, 1,501 stepchildren), 2,463 grandchildren, 1,345 brothers or sisters, 650 parents, 1,989 other relatives, 2,347 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 12,314 (4,572 male householders (3,536 living alone)), 5,574 female householders (4,946 living alone)), 2,168 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3,998 (3,080 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 6,967 2-persons, 4,781 3-persons, 3,995 4-persons, 2,376 5-persons, 1,368 6-persons, 806 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 8,482 1-person, 1,417 2-persons, 125 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
13,095 married couples with children.
7,036 single-parent households (1,384 men, 5,652 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,606
| Here: | 15.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 466
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 949
| Here: | 28.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |