Niles township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 35 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Niles township: | 34.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Niles township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 88% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 32% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 55868
- Northeast: 2473
- Midwest: 4760
- South: 2121
- West: 1399
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $213,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
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 Niles township, Illinois:
- 1,625 people in nursing homes
- 272 people in other group homes
- 145 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 81 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 75 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 67 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 11 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 24,758
- One, attached: 2,108
- Two: 1,328
- 3 or 4: 2,494
- 5 to 9: 1,346
- 10 to 19: 1,024
- 20 to 49: 2,832
- 50 or more: 2,808
- Mobile homes: 47
Median worth of mobile homes: $225,000
Housing units in Niles township with a mortgage: 15,244 (1,171 second mortgage, 2,490 home equity loan, 65 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 9,546
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Health care (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Niles township:
- German (8.5%)
- Polish (7.8%)
- Russian (7.7%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- United States or American (4.6%)
- Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac (3.7%)
- Greek (3.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (11%)
- Philippines (10%)
- Korea (9%)
- Russia (6%)
- Ukraine (6%)
- Iraq (5%)
- Poland (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 35,547 (76%)
- Carpooled: 4,953 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 989 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 4 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 1,211 (3%)
- Railroad: 1,325 (3%)
- Taxi: 32 (0%)
- Bicycle: 104 (0%)
- Walked: 884 (2%)
- Other means: 280 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,671 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Niles township, Illinois:
- 1,625 people in nursing homes
- 272 people in other group homes
- 145 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 81 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 75 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 67 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 11 people in religious group quarters
56.4% of residents of Niles township speak English at home.
4.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
21.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
11.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
5.5% of residents speak other language at home (68% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 100,375- In family households: 89,189 (22,228 male householders, 5,603 female householders)
23,519 spouses, 31,114 children (29,755 natural, 780 adopted, 579 stepchildren), 850 grandchildren, 1,248 brothers or sisters, 1,808 parents, 1,971 other relatives, 848 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 11,186 (3,227 male householders (2,780 living alone)), 6,823 female householders (6,339 living alone)), 1,136 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,263 (1,767 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 11,471 2-persons, 5,884 3-persons, 5,853 4-persons, 2,881 5-persons, 1,261 6-persons, 481 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 9,119 1-person, 802 2-persons, 101 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
18,621 married couples with children.
2,511 single-parent households (509 men, 2,002 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,786
| Here: | 16.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 766
| Here: | 13.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,812
| Here: | 33.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |