Worth township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Worth township: | 9.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
67% of Worth 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, 36% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 123871
- Northeast: 1437
- Midwest: 5784
- South: 4173
- West: 1242
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $130,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Worth township, Illinois:
- 1,599 people in nursing homes
- 374 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 118 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 54 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in religious group quarters
- 34 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 22 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 9 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 36,046
- One, attached: 2,937
- Two: 1,589
- 3 or 4: 2,518
- 5 to 9: 5,674
- 10 to 19: 7,383
- 20 to 49: 2,694
- 50 or more: 735
- Mobile homes: 918
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,100
Housing units in Worth township with a mortgage: 23,157 (2,321 second mortgage, 3,127 home equity loan, 162 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 12,933
- Construction (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Worth township:
- Irish (23.3%)
- Polish (14.7%)
- German (12.7%)
- Italian (8.6%)
- Lithuanian (2.7%)
- English (2.4%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (27%)
- Poland (13%)
- Ireland (7%)
- Other Eastern Europe (6%)
- Jordan (5%)
- Asia, n.e.c. (5%)
- Greece (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 54,363 (78%)
- Carpooled: 6,153 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,107 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 9 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 739 (1%)
- Railroad: 3,591 (5%)
- Ferryboat: 5 (0%)
- Taxi: 19 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 29 (0%)
- Bicycle: 123 (0%)
- Walked: 1,595 (2%)
- Other means: 398 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,202 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Worth township, Illinois:
- 1,599 people in nursing homes
- 374 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 118 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 54 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in religious group quarters
- 34 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 22 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 9 people in other nonhousehold living situations
84.6% of residents of Worth township speak English at home.
6.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
6.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
2.5% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 149,986- In family households: 127,718 (29,954 male householders, 9,310 female householders)
30,247 spouses, 48,798 children (46,046 natural, 951 adopted, 1,801 stepchildren), 2,440 grandchildren, 1,552 brothers or sisters, 1,259 parents, 2,387 other relatives, 1,771 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 22,268 (7,404 male householders (6,160 living alone)), 12,190 female householders (11,186 living alone)), 2,674 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,253 (1,641 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 15,704 2-persons, 8,771 3-persons, 7,655 4-persons, 4,304 5-persons, 1,968 6-persons, 862 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 17,346 1-person, 2,002 2-persons, 162 3-persons, 60 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
27,502 married couples with children.
6,523 single-parent households (1,337 men, 5,186 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3,725
| Here: | 21.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2,133
| Here: | 26.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2,058
| Here: | 30.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |