Hanover township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 23 (35% naturalized citizens)
| Hanover township: | 22.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
54% of Hanover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 49845
- Northeast: 2117
- Midwest: 6174
- South: 3493
- West: 1805
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $185,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
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 Hanover township, Illinois:
- 290 people in nursing homes
- 85 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 56 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 55 people in religious group quarters
- 49 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 48 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 19 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 17,290
- One, attached: 6,369
- Two: 262
- 3 or 4: 1,123
- 5 to 9: 1,273
- 10 to 19: 947
- 20 to 49: 624
- 50 or more: 206
- Mobile homes: 828
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,900
Housing units in Hanover township with a mortgage: 18,528 (1,519 second mortgage, 2,275 home equity loan, 60 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,779
- Construction (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hanover township:
- German (15.8%)
- Polish (10.0%)
- Italian (9.7%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- United States or American (2.9%)
- English (2.8%)
- Swedish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (52%)
- Philippines (7%)
- India (7%)
- Poland (6%)
- Laos (2%)
- Pakistan (2%)
- Germany (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 34,760 (81%)
- Carpooled: 5,017 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 112 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 9 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 45 (0%)
- Railroad: 1,286 (3%)
- Ferryboat: 19 (0%)
- Taxi: 19 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 45 (0%)
- Walked: 448 (1%)
- Other means: 337 (1%)
- Worked at home: 981 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (94%)
- Electricity (5%)
People in group quarters in Hanover township, Illinois:
- 290 people in nursing homes
- 85 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 56 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 55 people in religious group quarters
- 49 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 48 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 19 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
67.5% of residents of Hanover township speak English at home.
19.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
6.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
4.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (59% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (65% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 82,856- In family households: 74,160 (16,947 male householders, 4,190 female householders)
17,733 spouses, 27,251 children (25,451 natural, 636 adopted, 1,164 stepchildren), 991 grandchildren, 1,686 brothers or sisters, 955 parents, 2,620 other relatives, 1,787 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 8,696 (3,355 male householders (2,488 living alone)), 3,684 female householders (3,162 living alone)), 1,657 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 612 (376 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,047 2-persons, 4,789 3-persons, 4,724 4-persons, 2,498 5-persons, 1,188 6-persons, 891 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,650 1-person, 1,213 2-persons, 94 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 4 6-persons,
17,946 married couples with children.
3,124 single-parent households (872 men, 2,252 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,065
| Here: | 10.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 330
| Here: | 7.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 672
| Here: | 22.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |