Berwyn township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 25 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Berwyn township: | 25.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
57% of Berwyn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 90% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 41% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 35157
- Northeast: 758
- Midwest: 1676
- South: 1499
- West: 699
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $134,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Berwyn township, Illinois:
- 140 people in nursing homes
- 22 people in religious group quarters
- 19 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,025
- One, attached: 279
- Two: 3,950
- 3 or 4: 2,881
- 5 to 9: 1,611
- 10 to 19: 1,060
- 20 to 49: 736
- 50 or more: 115
- Mobile homes: 24
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $85,700
Housing units in Berwyn township with a mortgage: 6,013 (518 second mortgage, 883 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,225
- Construction (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Berwyn township:
- Polish (10.3%)
- Italian (10.1%)
- German (8.1%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Czech (4.7%)
- United States or American (1.9%)
- English (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (58%)
- Poland (6%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Italy (3%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (2%)
- Other Eastern Europe (2%)
- Yugoslavia (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 16,818 (69%)
- Carpooled: 3,582 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 687 (3%)
- Subway or elevated: 788 (3%)
- Railroad: 1,051 (4%)
- Taxi: 118 (0%)
- Bicycle: 71 (0%)
- Walked: 784 (3%)
- Other means: 94 (0%)
- Worked at home: 384 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (93%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Berwyn township, Illinois:
- 140 people in nursing homes
- 22 people in religious group quarters
- 19 people in other nonhousehold living situations
56.9% of residents of Berwyn township speak English at home.
31.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
9.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (63% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 53,836- In family households: 45,941 (9,462 male householders, 3,491 female householders)
9,727 spouses, 17,511 children (16,653 natural, 273 adopted, 585 stepchildren), 1,039 grandchildren, 1,057 brothers or sisters, 787 parents, 1,710 other relatives, 1,157 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,895 (2,899 male householders (2,485 living alone)), 3,855 female householders (3,311 living alone)), 1,141 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 180 (136 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,308 2-persons, 2,973 3-persons, 2,567 4-persons, 1,620 5-persons, 806 6-persons, 679 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,796 1-person, 822 2-persons, 102 3-persons, 29 4-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
9,861 married couples with children.
2,615 single-parent households (711 men, 1,904 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 719
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 375
| Here: | 13.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 688
| Here: | 25.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |