Proviso township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 14 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Proviso township: | 14.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
63% of Proviso township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 82% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 105332
- Northeast: 2375
- Midwest: 6424
- South: 16715
- West: 1703
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $133,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
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 Proviso township, Illinois:
- 960 people in nursing homes
- 365 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 128 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 124 people in religious group quarters
- 119 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 36 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 27 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 23 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 23 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 18 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in institutions for the blind
- 3 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 34,793
- One, attached: 2,239
- Two: 5,247
- 3 or 4: 4,428
- 5 to 9: 4,303
- 10 to 19: 2,316
- 20 to 49: 2,408
- 50 or more: 1,711
- Mobile homes: 694
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,500
Housing units in Proviso township with a mortgage: 22,740 (2,259 second mortgage, 2,536 home equity loan, 109 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 10,350
- Construction (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Proviso township:
- Italian (9.2%)
- German (7.9%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Polish (5.3%)
- Czech (2.1%)
- English (1.8%)
- United States or American (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (57%)
- Philippines (5%)
- India (4%)
- Italy (4%)
- Germany (3%)
- Cuba (2%)
- Guatemala (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 51,465 (74%)
- Carpooled: 8,413 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,955 (3%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 1,892 (3%)
- Railroad: 1,688 (2%)
- Ferryboat: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 158 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 20 (0%)
- Bicycle: 172 (0%)
- Walked: 1,830 (3%)
- Other means: 403 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,445 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (89%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Proviso township, Illinois:
- 960 people in nursing homes
- 365 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 128 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 124 people in religious group quarters
- 119 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 36 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 27 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 23 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 23 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 18 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in institutions for the blind
- 3 people in other group homes
77.4% of residents of Proviso township speak English at home.
16.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (45% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
4.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (76% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 154,019- In family households: 133,285 (26,784 male householders, 11,846 female householders)
26,912 spouses, 48,943 children (45,562 natural, 1,387 adopted, 1,994 stepchildren), 6,036 grandchildren, 2,939 brothers or sisters, 1,713 parents, 4,758 other relatives, 3,354 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 20,734 (7,404 male householders (6,079 living alone)), 10,061 female householders (8,958 living alone)), 3,269 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,812 (1,122 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 13,909 2-persons, 8,824 3-persons, 7,717 4-persons, 4,430 5-persons, 1,882 6-persons, 1,868 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 15,037 1-person, 1,987 2-persons, 240 3-persons, 119 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
24,316 married couples with children.
8,936 single-parent households (1,666 men, 7,270 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,936
| Here: | 16.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1,531
| Here: | 18.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,668
| Here: | 23.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |