Palatine township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 20 (36% naturalized citizens)
| Palatine township: | 20.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
57% of Palatine 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, 48% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 67307
- Northeast: 4564
- Midwest: 10834
- South: 3982
- West: 2706
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $177,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
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 Palatine township, Illinois:
- 359 people in nursing homes
- 140 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 80 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 72 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 47 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 8 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 22,414
- One, attached: 5,467
- Two: 330
- 3 or 4: 1,830
- 5 to 9: 5,509
- 10 to 19: 2,899
- 20 to 49: 2,388
- 50 or more: 2,993
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $225,000
Housing units in Palatine township with a mortgage: 20,272 (1,703 second mortgage, 3,094 home equity loan, 67 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,365
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Computer and electronic products (3%)
- Computer specialists (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- 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%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Palatine township:
- German (19.4%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Polish (10.0%)
- Italian (9.1%)
- English (4.7%)
- United States or American (3.2%)
- Swedish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- India (11%)
- Poland (8%)
- Korea (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Japan (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 50,163 (81%)
- Carpooled: 5,376 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 116 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 14 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 89 (0%)
- Railroad: 2,477 (4%)
- Ferryboat: 10 (0%)
- Taxi: 120 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 27 (0%)
- Bicycle: 219 (0%)
- Walked: 729 (1%)
- Other means: 272 (0%)
- Worked at home: 1,945 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Palatine township, Illinois:
- 359 people in nursing homes
- 140 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 80 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 72 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 47 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 8 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in religious group quarters
74.7% of residents of Palatine township speak English at home.
10.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (36% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
9.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
5.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (55% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 111,982- In family households: 95,375 (24,046 male householders, 5,267 female householders)
24,890 spouses, 34,521 children (32,685 natural, 857 adopted, 979 stepchildren), 815 grandchildren, 1,130 brothers or sisters, 999 parents, 2,082 other relatives, 1,625 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 16,607 (6,510 male householders (4,928 living alone)), 6,810 female householders (5,654 living alone)), 3,287 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 714 (527 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 11,372 2-persons, 6,558 3-persons, 6,573 4-persons, 3,078 5-persons, 1,164 6-persons, 568 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10,582 1-person, 2,420 2-persons, 230 3-persons, 46 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
23,354 married couples with children.
3,789 single-parent households (875 men, 2,914 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,676
| Here: | 13.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 336
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,160
| Here: | 24.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |