Bloom township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (42% naturalized citizens)
| Bloom township: | 6.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
66% of Bloom township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 67203
- Northeast: 1429
- Midwest: 8383
- South: 8804
- West: 1258
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $83,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
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
People in group quarters in Bloom township, Illinois:
- 551 people in nursing homes
- 194 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 180 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 18 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 8 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 23,427
- One, attached: 1,926
- Two: 2,188
- 3 or 4: 1,829
- 5 to 9: 1,043
- 10 to 19: 1,098
- 20 to 49: 502
- 50 or more: 535
- Mobile homes: 1,490
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,000
Housing units in Bloom township with a mortgage: 14,666 (1,427 second mortgage, 1,679 home equity loan, 34 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 6,745
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (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 (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bloom township:
- German (10.7%)
- Italian (9.3%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Polish (7.2%)
- United States or American (2.7%)
- English (2.6%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (59%)
- Italy (6%)
- Poland (4%)
- Germany (3%)
- Philippines (3%)
- India (3%)
- Jamaica (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 30,272 (77%)
- Carpooled: 4,281 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 540 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 276 (1%)
- Railroad: 2,005 (5%)
- Ferryboat: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 24 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 62 (0%)
- Walked: 719 (2%)
- Other means: 355 (1%)
- Worked at home: 874 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (92%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Bloom township, Illinois:
- 551 people in nursing homes
- 194 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 180 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 18 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 8 people in other group homes
85.7% of residents of Bloom township speak English at home.
10.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
3.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (77% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 92,940- In family households: 83,309 (16,980 male householders, 7,303 female householders)
17,165 spouses, 33,202 children (30,791 natural, 984 adopted, 1,427 stepchildren), 2,877 grandchildren, 1,041 brothers or sisters, 946 parents, 1,823 other relatives, 1,972 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 9,631 (3,730 male householders (3,067 living alone)), 4,505 female householders (4,144 living alone)), 1,396 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 961 (553 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 8,603 2-persons, 5,695 3-persons, 4,968 4-persons, 2,790 5-persons, 1,271 6-persons, 956 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 7,211 1-person, 793 2-persons, 136 3-persons, 57 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
15,937 married couples with children.
8,058 single-parent households (1,310 men, 6,748 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,857
| Here: | 14.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 715
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 594
| Here: | 15.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |