Rich township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Rich township: | 4.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Rich township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 48756
- Northeast: 1690
- Midwest: 5422
- South: 7571
- West: 892
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $123,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Rich township, Illinois:
- 405 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 382 people in nursing homes
- 46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 20 people in religious group quarters
- 16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 10 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 17,097
- One, attached: 3,320
- Two: 181
- 3 or 4: 814
- 5 to 9: 1,338
- 10 to 19: 654
- 20 to 49: 666
- 50 or more: 1,227
- Mobile homes: 1,003
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,500
Housing units in Rich township with a mortgage: 13,983 (1,549 second mortgage, 1,570 home equity loan, 64 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,764
- Construction (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rich township:
- German (9.7%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Italian (5.0%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- English (3.4%)
- United States or American (2.7%)
- African (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (12%)
- Mexico (10%)
- India (10%)
- Nigeria (8%)
- Germany (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Jamaica (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 24,282 (75%)
- Carpooled: 2,927 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 144 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 399 (1%)
- Railroad: 2,998 (9%)
- Taxi: 22 (0%)
- Bicycle: 17 (0%)
- Walked: 466 (1%)
- Other means: 283 (1%)
- Worked at home: 729 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Rich township, Illinois:
- 405 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 382 people in nursing homes
- 46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 20 people in religious group quarters
- 16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 10 people in other group homes
92.9% of residents of Rich township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (62% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (88% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 66,743- In family households: 58,830 (13,031 male householders, 5,270 female householders)
13,477 spouses, 21,704 children (19,610 natural, 849 adopted, 1,245 stepchildren), 1,842 grandchildren, 561 brothers or sisters, 553 parents, 1,217 other relatives, 1,175 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,913 (2,424 male householders (1,934 living alone)), 4,492 female householders (4,189 living alone)), 997 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 881 (792 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,132 2-persons, 4,564 3-persons, 3,751 4-persons, 1,789 5-persons, 689 6-persons, 376 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 6,123 1-person, 677 2-persons, 68 3-persons, 35 4-persons, 13 5-persons,
11,266 married couples with children.
4,253 single-parent households (672 men, 3,581 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,334
| Here: | 15.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 554
| Here: | 13.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 905
| Here: | 24.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |