Kankakee township, Kankakee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Kankakee township: | 6.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
54% of Kankakee township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% 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: 20927
- Northeast: 454
- Midwest: 1482
- South: 2880
- West: 464
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $62,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Kankakee township, Illinois:
- 676 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 395 people in nursing homes
- 149 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 140 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 112 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 23 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 22 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,086
- One, attached: 173
- Two: 1,107
- 3 or 4: 876
- 5 to 9: 520
- 10 to 19: 408
- 20 to 49: 153
- 50 or more: 670
- Mobile homes: 254
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,000
Housing units in Kankakee township with a mortgage: 3,375 (336 second mortgage, 399 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,791
- Construction (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kankakee township:
- German (13.2%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- French (except Basque) (5.5%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
- English (3.5%)
- Italian (3.3%)
- Polish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (78%)
- Thailand (5%)
- India (3%)
- Germany (3%)
- Laos (2%)
- Other Western Africa (1%)
- Iraq (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,181 (74%)
- Carpooled: 1,801 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 109 (1%)
- Railroad: 45 (0%)
- Bicycle: 82 (1%)
- Walked: 336 (3%)
- Other means: 203 (2%)
- Worked at home: 258 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (84%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Kankakee township, Illinois:
- 676 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 395 people in nursing homes
- 149 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 140 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 112 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 23 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 22 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in religious group quarters
89.0% of residents of Kankakee township speak English at home.
8.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 44% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 26,598- In family households: 22,146 (3,932 male householders, 2,615 female householders)
4,075 spouses, 8,702 children (8,193 natural, 150 adopted, 359 stepchildren), 786 grandchildren, 482 brothers or sisters, 201 parents, 570 other relatives, 783 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,452 (1,576 male householders (1,273 living alone)), 2,228 female householders (1,983 living alone)), 648 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,554 (1,314 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,411 2-persons, 1,514 3-persons, 1,261 4-persons, 778 5-persons, 306 6-persons, 277 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,256 1-person, 480 2-persons, 63 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
3,563 married couples with children.
3,271 single-parent households (488 men, 2,783 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 437
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 263
| Here: | 15.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 168
| Here: | 16.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |