Orland township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Orland township: | 8.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Orland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 84% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 75442
- Northeast: 1307
- Midwest: 4398
- South: 1572
- West: 582
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $184,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
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 Orland township, Illinois:
- 411 people in nursing homes
- 384 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 159 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 37 people in other group homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 20,300
- One, attached: 6,128
- Two: 87
- 3 or 4: 1,178
- 5 to 9: 2,303
- 10 to 19: 2,176
- 20 to 49: 173
- 50 or more: 107
Housing units in Orland township with a mortgage: 19,041 (1,448 second mortgage, 3,146 home equity loan, 77 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,934
- Construction (12%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Orland township:
- Irish (20.3%)
- Polish (17.0%)
- Italian (13.3%)
- German (13.2%)
- Dutch (3.3%)
- Greek (2.7%)
- English (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (12%)
- Philippines (10%)
- Mexico (9%)
- Greece (7%)
- Italy (7%)
- India (6%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 36,888 (82%)
- Carpooled: 3,186 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 98 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 42 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 77 (0%)
- Railroad: 3,264 (7%)
- Taxi: 25 (0%)
- Bicycle: 31 (0%)
- Walked: 405 (1%)
- Other means: 190 (0%)
- Worked at home: 894 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (95%)
- Electricity (4%)
People in group quarters in Orland township, Illinois:
- 411 people in nursing homes
- 384 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 159 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 37 people in other group homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
86.1% of residents of Orland township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
7.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak other language at home (78% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 2% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 90,340- In family households: 82,712 (21,430 male householders, 3,710 female householders)
21,791 spouses, 32,132 children (30,456 natural, 761 adopted, 915 stepchildren), 803 grandchildren, 504 brothers or sisters, 823 parents, 938 other relatives, 581 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,628 (2,521 male householders (2,024 living alone)), 4,125 female householders (3,891 living alone)), 982 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,001 (964 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 9,229 2-persons, 5,338 3-persons, 6,006 4-persons, 3,176 5-persons, 1,048 6-persons, 343 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,915 1-person, 582 2-persons, 91 3-persons, 42 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
20,951 married couples with children.
2,509 single-parent households (464 men, 2,045 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,638
| Here: | 14.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 707
| Here: | 11.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,169
| Here: | 26.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |