Wheeling township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 21 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Wheeling township: | 21.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Wheeling township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 98255
- Northeast: 4716
- Midwest: 12593
- South: 4473
- West: 1940
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $216,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
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 Wheeling township, Illinois:
- 874 people in nursing homes
- 69 people in religious group quarters
- 52 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 25 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 17 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 12 people in other workers' dormitories
- 5 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 3 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 32,996
- One, attached: 6,835
- Two: 422
- 3 or 4: 2,390
- 5 to 9: 5,378
- 10 to 19: 2,919
- 20 to 49: 3,774
- 50 or more: 6,714
- Mobile homes: 441
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,800
Housing units in Wheeling township with a mortgage: 26,815 (1,873 second mortgage, 4,321 home equity loan, 74 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 9,999
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Construction (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheeling township:
- German (17.6%)
- Polish (13.0%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Italian (8.3%)
- English (4.0%)
- Russian (3.7%)
- United States or American (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (28%)
- Poland (14%)
- India (8%)
- Ukraine (5%)
- Korea (4%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Russia (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 65,228 (80%)
- Carpooled: 6,705 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 346 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 7 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 280 (0%)
- Railroad: 3,923 (5%)
- Ferryboat: 17 (0%)
- Taxi: 122 (0%)
- Bicycle: 222 (0%)
- Walked: 1,323 (2%)
- Other means: 416 (1%)
- Worked at home: 2,442 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Wheeling township, Illinois:
- 874 people in nursing homes
- 69 people in religious group quarters
- 52 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 25 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 17 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 12 people in other workers' dormitories
- 5 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 3 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
73.0% of residents of Wheeling township speak English at home.
9.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (35% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
12.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
3.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (76% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 154,929- In family households: 133,814 (34,787 male householders, 7,198 female householders)
36,980 spouses, 46,100 children (43,582 natural, 1,169 adopted, 1,349 stepchildren), 1,065 grandchildren, 1,635 brothers or sisters, 1,432 parents, 2,867 other relatives, 1,750 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 21,115 (7,300 male householders (5,959 living alone)), 11,042 female householders (10,002 living alone)), 2,773 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,062 (892 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 17,622 2-persons, 8,933 3-persons, 9,065 4-persons, 4,129 5-persons, 1,536 6-persons, 700 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 15,961 1-person, 2,088 2-persons, 215 3-persons, 42 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 11 6-persons,
31,422 married couples with children.
4,061 single-parent households (900 men, 3,161 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,454
| Here: | 14.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 536
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,532
| Here: | 26.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |