Bourbonnais township, Kankakee County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Bourbonnais township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
53% of Bourbonnais township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 25803
- Northeast: 748
- Midwest: 3164
- South: 1725
- West: 591
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $96,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Bourbonnais township, Illinois:
- 1,088 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 393 people in nursing homes
- 139 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 32 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 5 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,314
- One, attached: 553
- Two: 511
- 3 or 4: 781
- 5 to 9: 1,073
- 10 to 19: 436
- 20 to 49: 9
- 50 or more: 31
- Mobile homes: 1,118
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,100
Housing units in Bourbonnais township with a mortgage: 5,192 (581 second mortgage, 813 home equity loan, 16 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,960
- Construction (11%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bourbonnais township:
- German (23.0%)
- Irish (12.4%)
- French (except Basque) (11.9%)
- United States or American (7.1%)
- English (6.7%)
- Italian (5.7%)
- Polish (4.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (16%)
- Mexico (16%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (10%)
- Philippines (6%)
- Germany (6%)
- Korea (6%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,875 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,726 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 64 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 8 (0%)
- Railroad: 70 (0%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 21 (0%)
- Bicycle: 36 (0%)
- Walked: 523 (3%)
- Other means: 17 (0%)
- Worked at home: 393 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Bourbonnais township, Illinois:
- 1,088 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 393 people in nursing homes
- 139 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 32 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 5 people in religious group quarters
94.9% of residents of Bourbonnais township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (48% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 31,348- In family households: 26,818 (6,821 male householders, 1,825 female householders)
6,862 spouses, 9,890 children (9,145 natural, 234 adopted, 511 stepchildren), 364 grandchildren, 163 brothers or sisters, 109 parents, 233 other relatives, 551 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,530 (1,497 male householders (1,130 living alone)), 2,218 female householders (1,976 living alone)), 815 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,689 (386 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,643 2-persons, 1,988 3-persons, 1,878 4-persons, 785 5-persons, 250 6-persons, 102 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,106 1-person, 488 2-persons, 89 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
6,113 married couples with children.
1,881 single-parent households (466 men, 1,415 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 569
| Here: | 14.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 175
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,312
| Here: | 56.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |