Elk Grove township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 27 (32% naturalized citizens)
| Elk Grove township: | 27.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Elk Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% 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: 55293
- Northeast: 2250
- Midwest: 6461
- South: 2852
- West: 1495
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $164,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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 Elk Grove township, Illinois:
- 282 people in nursing homes
- 31 people in religious group quarters
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 16,970
- One, attached: 2,125
- Two: 331
- 3 or 4: 1,035
- 5 to 9: 3,699
- 10 to 19: 3,228
- 20 to 49: 4,714
- 50 or more: 5,020
- Mobile homes: 1,516
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,500
Housing units in Elk Grove township with a mortgage: 11,546 (1,001 second mortgage, 1,745 home equity loan, 25 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 6,162
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (3%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Air transportation (3%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elk Grove township:
- German (15.5%)
- Polish (13.8%)
- Italian (9.7%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- English (3.1%)
- Greek (2.3%)
- United States or American (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- India (15%)
- Poland (12%)
- Korea (5%)
- Japan (4%)
- Philippines (3%)
- Greece (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 38,969 (78%)
- Carpooled: 5,696 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 545 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 4 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 211 (0%)
- Railroad: 1,669 (3%)
- Taxi: 76 (0%)
- Bicycle: 342 (1%)
- Walked: 1,123 (2%)
- Other means: 346 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,129 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Elk Grove township, Illinois:
- 282 people in nursing homes
- 31 people in religious group quarters
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
65.0% of residents of Elk Grove township speak English at home.
13.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (32% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
14.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
5.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (48% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (68% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 94,622- In family households: 79,333 (20,149 male householders, 4,621 female householders)
20,611 spouses, 26,364 children (24,990 natural, 681 adopted, 693 stepchildren), 1,020 grandchildren, 1,736 brothers or sisters, 1,151 parents, 1,917 other relatives, 1,764 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 15,289 (5,859 male householders (4,688 living alone)), 7,053 female householders (6,277 living alone)), 2,377 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 343 (286 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 10,351 2-persons, 5,486 3-persons, 4,904 4-persons, 2,442 5-persons, 954 6-persons, 633 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10,965 1-person, 1,714 2-persons, 154 3-persons, 50 4-persons, 10 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
16,346 married couples with children.
3,061 single-parent households (698 men, 2,363 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,125
| Here: | 12.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 287
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,008
| Here: | 24.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |