Pembroke township, Kankakee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (32% naturalized citizens)
Pembroke township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Pembroke township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1960
- Northeast: 43
- Midwest: 71
- South: 672
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $23,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
2 people in religious group quarters


Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 686
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 4
- 10 to 19: 7
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 352
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,300
Housing units in Pembroke township with a mortgage: 184 (10 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 198
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (30%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (12%)
- Bus drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pembroke township:
- United States or American (9.6%)
- African (3.2%)
- Irish (1.0%)
- French (except Basque) (0.4%)
- British (0.3%)
- Swedish (0.3%)
- English (0.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (37%)
- Mexico (32%)
- Haiti (21%)
- Germany (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 572 (81%)
- Carpooled: 97 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 12 (2%)
- Worked at home: 15 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (81%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
2 people in religious group quarters
97.6% of residents of Pembroke township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (31% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,784- In family households: 2,402 (315 male householders, 302 female householders)
301 spouses, 1,010 children (946 natural, 33 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 273 grandchildren, 52 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 37 other relatives, 100 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 382 (164 male householders (124 living alone)), 145 female householders (125 living alone)), 73 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 169 2-persons, 129 3-persons, 125 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 48 6-persons, 58 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 249 1-person, 48 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
290 married couples with children.
380 single-parent households (53 men, 327 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 39
Here: | 7.3% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |