Barrington township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 12 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Barrington township: | 12.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Barrington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8872
- Northeast: 901
- Midwest: 1602
- South: 550
- West: 360
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $238,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,402
- One, attached: 162
- Two: 133
- 3 or 4: 59
- 5 to 9: 136
- 10 to 19: 5
- 20 to 49: 46
- 50 or more: 80
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $275,000
Housing units in Barrington township with a mortgage: 3,004 (349 second mortgage, 458 home equity loan, 21 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 929
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Construction (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Top executives (13%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers (5%)
- Physicians and surgeons (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Barrington township:
- German (20.3%)
- Irish (12.4%)
- Italian (11.1%)
- Polish (10.0%)
- English (6.8%)
- Greek (3.2%)
- Swedish (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (13%)
- Korea (10%)
- Philippines (7%)
- Italy (7%)
- Poland (6%)
- Iran (5%)
- Germany (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,342 (80%)
- Carpooled: 365 (5%)
- Subway or elevated: 33 (0%)
- Railroad: 382 (6%)
- Bicycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 72 (1%)
- Other means: 29 (0%)
- Worked at home: 476 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (94%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
82.1% of residents of Barrington township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
9.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
5.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (66% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 14,026- In family households: 12,933 (3,372 male householders, 561 female householders)
3,654 spouses, 4,790 children (4,564 natural, 132 adopted, 94 stepchildren), 41 grandchildren, 79 brothers or sisters, 113 parents, 181 other relatives, 142 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,093 (299 male householders (247 living alone)), 646 female householders (575 living alone)), 148 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,535 2-persons, 796 3-persons, 867 4-persons, 468 5-persons, 224 6-persons, 43 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 822 1-person, 98 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 1 5-persons,
3,482 married couples with children.
382 single-parent households (78 men, 304 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 259
| Here: | 13.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 147
| Here: | 16.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 210
| Here: | 34.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |