Thornton township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Thornton township: | 5.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
61% of Thornton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 88% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 30% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 128725
- Northeast: 1984
- Midwest: 16877
- South: 20858
- West: 1663
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $86,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Thornton township, Illinois:
- 1,166 people in nursing homes
- 142 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 66 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 62 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 45 people in state prisons
- 38 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 31 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 31 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 21 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 21 people in other group homes
- 5 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 46,348
- One, attached: 1,305
- Two: 3,546
- 3 or 4: 4,159
- 5 to 9: 4,462
- 10 to 19: 3,184
- 20 to 49: 1,898
- 50 or more: 2,097
- Mobile homes: 1,543
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,600
Housing units in Thornton township with a mortgage: 28,605 (3,261 second mortgage, 2,391 home equity loan, 109 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 11,262
- Construction (10%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- 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 (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thornton township:
- Polish (6.8%)
- German (5.4%)
- Irish (4.3%)
- Dutch (3.8%)
- Italian (3.4%)
- African (1.6%)
- United States or American (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (47%)
- Nigeria (5%)
- Poland (4%)
- Jamaica (4%)
- Italy (3%)
- Haiti (2%)
- Philippines (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 53,896 (72%)
- Carpooled: 9,058 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2,686 (4%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 45 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 1,300 (2%)
- Railroad: 4,218 (6%)
- Ferryboat: 28 (0%)
- Taxi: 146 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 12 (0%)
- Bicycle: 117 (0%)
- Walked: 1,461 (2%)
- Other means: 552 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,461 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (89%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Thornton township, Illinois:
- 1,166 people in nursing homes
- 142 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 66 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 62 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 45 people in state prisons
- 38 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 31 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 31 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 21 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 21 people in other group homes
- 5 people in religious group quarters
89.1% of residents of Thornton township speak English at home.
6.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 179,168- In family households: 158,109 (29,061 male householders, 17,156 female householders)
29,855 spouses, 62,510 children (57,586 natural, 2,143 adopted, 2,781 stepchildren), 7,014 grandchildren, 2,312 brothers or sisters, 1,732 parents, 4,062 other relatives, 4,407 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 21,059 (7,440 male householders (6,318 living alone)), 11,048 female householders (10,160 living alone)), 2,571 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,634 (1,337 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 16,174 2-persons, 11,341 3-persons, 9,238 4-persons, 5,118 5-persons, 2,616 6-persons, 1,730 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 16,478 1-person, 1,692 2-persons, 206 3-persons, 49 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
26,689 married couples with children.
17,169 single-parent households (2,741 men, 14,428 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4,046
| Here: | 16.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1,180
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,658
| Here: | 19.2% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |