Troy township, Will County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Troy township: | 4.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
63% of Troy township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 22511
- Northeast: 499
- Midwest: 2196
- South: 1187
- West: 332
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $136,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
384 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,710
- One, attached: 869
- Two: 25
- 3 or 4: 277
- 5 to 9: 189
- 10 to 19: 521
- 20 to 49: 70
- 50 or more: 400
- Mobile homes: 209
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Troy township with a mortgage: 6,262 (705 second mortgage, 880 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,496
- Construction (11%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Troy township:
- German (19.1%)
- Irish (13.8%)
- Italian (12.9%)
- Polish (9.6%)
- English (5.6%)
- United States or American (3.8%)
- Slovene (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (25%)
- Greece (8%)
- India (8%)
- Philippines (6%)
- Italy (5%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- Canada (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 12,657 (89%)
- Carpooled: 850 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 23 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 7 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 18 (0%)
- Railroad: 166 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 63 (0%)
- Other means: 28 (0%)
- Worked at home: 348 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (91%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
384 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
92.2% of residents of Troy township speak English at home.
4.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (72% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (62% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 27,583- In family households: 24,824 (6,612 male householders, 1,070 female householders)
6,558 spouses, 9,541 children (8,656 natural, 265 adopted, 620 stepchildren), 274 grandchildren, 102 brothers or sisters, 174 parents, 212 other relatives, 281 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,759 (958 male householders (703 living alone)), 1,356 female householders (1,251 living alone)), 445 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 387 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 2,881 2-persons, 1,763 3-persons, 1,865 4-persons, 841 5-persons, 183 6-persons, 149 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,954 1-person, 322 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 4 6-persons,
6,413 married couples with children.
844 single-parent households (227 men, 617 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 752
| Here: | 21.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 235
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 364
| Here: | 26.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |