Maine township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 29 (51% naturalized citizens)
| Maine township: | 28.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Maine township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 86% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 82022
- Northeast: 2714
- Midwest: 6529
- South: 2790
- West: 1381
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $256,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
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 Maine township, Illinois:
- 1,991 people in nursing homes
- 134 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 129 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 92 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 56 people in religious group quarters
- 53 people in other group homes
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 3 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 3 people in homes for the physically handicapped
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 29,640
- One, attached: 3,835
- Two: 1,005
- 3 or 4: 1,377
- 5 to 9: 4,423
- 10 to 19: 3,956
- 20 to 49: 4,113
- 50 or more: 3,984
- Mobile homes: 729
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,000
Housing units in Maine township with a mortgage: 19,597 (1,465 second mortgage, 3,130 home equity loan, 34 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 11,033
- Construction (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Maine township:
- Polish (17.1%)
- German (13.5%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- Italian (9.1%)
- Greek (2.7%)
- English (2.7%)
- United States or American (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (20%)
- Mexico (15%)
- India (15%)
- Philippines (7%)
- Korea (5%)
- Ukraine (3%)
- Greece (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 51,459 (78%)
- Carpooled: 5,897 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,567 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 22 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 964 (1%)
- Railroad: 2,476 (4%)
- Ferryboat: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 155 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 113 (0%)
- Walked: 1,344 (2%)
- Other means: 342 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,732 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Maine township, Illinois:
- 1,991 people in nursing homes
- 134 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 129 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 92 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 56 people in religious group quarters
- 53 people in other group homes
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 3 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 3 people in homes for the physically handicapped
62.5% of residents of Maine township speak English at home.
7.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
22.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
6.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak other language at home (64% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 133,174- In family households: 114,852 (28,980 male householders, 6,858 female householders)
29,994 spouses, 40,137 children (38,269 natural, 993 adopted, 875 stepchildren), 921 grandchildren, 1,605 brothers or sisters, 1,847 parents, 2,921 other relatives, 1,589 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 18,322 (6,206 male householders (5,066 living alone)), 9,847 female householders (9,082 living alone)), 2,269 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,477 (2,003 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 14,851 2-persons, 7,767 3-persons, 7,384 4-persons, 3,604 5-persons, 1,492 6-persons, 740 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 14,148 1-person, 1,680 2-persons, 179 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
23,929 married couples with children.
3,510 single-parent households (860 men, 2,650 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,087
| Here: | 15.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 525
| Here: | 7.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2,013
| Here: | 31.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |