Stickney township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 21 (46% naturalized citizens)
| Stickney township: | 21.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
70% of Stickney township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 91% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 27709
- Northeast: 301
- Midwest: 1030
- South: 809
- West: 282
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $130,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Stickney township, Illinois:
- 471 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 96 people in nursing homes
- 46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 15 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 13 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,683
- One, attached: 158
- Two: 430
- 3 or 4: 614
- 5 to 9: 834
- 10 to 19: 567
- 20 to 49: 75
- 50 or more: 29
- Mobile homes: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $139,600
Housing units in Stickney township with a mortgage: 6,304 (531 second mortgage, 748 home equity loan, 28 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,696
- Construction (11%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Stickney township:
- Polish (28.7%)
- Irish (13.3%)
- German (9.4%)
- Italian (8.4%)
- Czech (3.2%)
- United States or American (2.8%)
- Arab/Arabic (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (46%)
- Mexico (19%)
- Jordan (4%)
- Asia, n.e.c. (4%)
- Other Eastern Europe (3%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (3%)
- Israel (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,632 (77%)
- Carpooled: 2,099 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 455 (3%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 10 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 337 (2%)
- Railroad: 248 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Bicycle: 21 (0%)
- Walked: 643 (4%)
- Other means: 144 (1%)
- Worked at home: 209 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (95%)
- Electricity (4%)
People in group quarters in Stickney township, Illinois:
- 471 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 96 people in nursing homes
- 46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 15 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 13 people in religious group quarters
67.6% of residents of Stickney township speak English at home.
9.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
18.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (49% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (55% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
3.8% of residents speak other language at home (51% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 38,045- In family households: 34,532 (7,725 male householders, 2,221 female householders)
7,806 spouses, 13,048 children (12,519 natural, 222 adopted, 307 stepchildren), 1,047 grandchildren, 510 brothers or sisters, 563 parents, 1,017 other relatives, 595 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,513 (1,334 male householders (1,109 living alone)), 1,761 female householders (1,627 living alone)), 418 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 628 (126 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,390 2-persons, 2,294 3-persons, 2,140 4-persons, 1,196 5-persons, 570 6-persons, 356 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,736 1-person, 304 2-persons, 35 3-persons, 20 4-persons,
7,082 married couples with children.
1,351 single-parent households (374 men, 977 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 630
| Here: | 13.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 291
| Here: | 12.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 657
| Here: | 34.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |