Palos township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 14 (64% naturalized citizens)
| Palos township: | 14.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Palos township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 84% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 40910
- Northeast: 725
- Midwest: 2301
- South: 1205
- West: 460
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $188,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
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 Palos township, Illinois:
- 539 people in nursing homes
- 50 people in other group homes
- 9 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 11,655
- One, attached: 1,996
- Two: 130
- 3 or 4: 1,497
- 5 to 9: 1,997
- 10 to 19: 2,018
- 20 to 49: 963
- 50 or more: 318
- Mobile homes: 995
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,000
Housing units in Palos township with a mortgage: 8,451 (612 second mortgage, 1,343 home equity loan, 46 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,316
- Construction (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Palos township:
- Polish (18.4%)
- Irish (17.1%)
- German (11.5%)
- Italian (10.5%)
- Greek (4.6%)
- Lithuanian (3.3%)
- English (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (20%)
- Greece (12%)
- Mexico (8%)
- Other Eastern Europe (7%)
- India (6%)
- Philippines (6%)
- Ireland (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 21,702 (84%)
- Carpooled: 2,032 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 154 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 99 (0%)
- Railroad: 793 (3%)
- Ferryboat: 16 (0%)
- Taxi: 18 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (0%)
- Bicycle: 44 (0%)
- Walked: 326 (1%)
- Other means: 56 (0%)
- Worked at home: 588 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (85%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Palos township, Illinois:
- 539 people in nursing homes
- 50 people in other group homes
- 9 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
78.7% of residents of Palos township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
13.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
3.1% of residents speak other language at home (73% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 52,822- In family households: 45,081 (11,330 male householders, 3,017 female householders)
11,818 spouses, 15,912 children (15,174 natural, 297 adopted, 441 stepchildren), 619 grandchildren, 439 brothers or sisters, 658 parents, 774 other relatives, 514 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,741 (2,603 male householders (2,077 living alone)), 4,110 female householders (3,762 living alone)), 1,028 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 597 (535 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 6,373 2-persons, 2,975 3-persons, 2,727 4-persons, 1,491 5-persons, 527 6-persons, 254 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,839 1-person, 760 2-persons, 96 3-persons, 18 4-persons,
9,298 married couples with children.
1,602 single-parent households (330 men, 1,272 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,256
| Here: | 22.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 557
| Here: | 20.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 724
| Here: | 27.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |