Waukegan township, Lake County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 31 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Waukegan township: | 30.5% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
53% of Waukegan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 45650
- Northeast: 1465
- Midwest: 5209
- South: 7734
- West: 2082
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $114,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Waukegan township, Illinois:
- 637 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 504 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 353 people in nursing homes
- 237 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 182 people in other group homes
- 130 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 38 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 37 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 22 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 21 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 14 people in halfway houses
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 15,781
- One, attached: 1,150
- Two: 3,546
- 3 or 4: 1,626
- 5 to 9: 1,905
- 10 to 19: 2,044
- 20 to 49: 1,829
- 50 or more: 2,010
- Mobile homes: 767
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,700
Housing units in Waukegan township with a mortgage: 9,943 (1,060 second mortgage, 915 home equity loan, 73 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,691
- Construction (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Waukegan township:
- German (5.8%)
- Irish (3.0%)
- United States or American (2.6%)
- Polish (2.4%)
- English (1.9%)
- Italian (1.8%)
- Swedish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (76%)
- Honduras (6%)
- Philippines (4%)
- El Salvador (2%)
- Other Central America (2%)
- Guatemala (1%)
- India (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 26,807 (69%)
- Carpooled: 8,739 (22%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 907 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 58 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 46 (0%)
- Railroad: 340 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 11 (0%)
- Taxi: 96 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 36 (0%)
- Bicycle: 71 (0%)
- Walked: 802 (2%)
- Other means: 631 (2%)
- Worked at home: 542 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (84%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Waukegan township, Illinois:
- 637 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 504 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 353 people in nursing homes
- 237 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 182 people in other group homes
- 130 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 38 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 37 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 22 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 21 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 14 people in halfway houses
- 4 people in religious group quarters
53.2% of residents of Waukegan township speak English at home.
42.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 90,499- In family households: 80,218 (14,143 male householders, 6,446 female householders)
14,289 spouses, 30,984 children (29,199 natural, 460 adopted, 1,325 stepchildren), 2,288 grandchildren, 2,419 brothers or sisters, 912 parents, 4,949 other relatives, 3,788 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 10,281 (4,041 male householders (3,221 living alone)), 4,424 female householders (3,818 living alone)), 1,816 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,194 (899 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 5,779 2-persons, 4,370 3-persons, 4,116 4-persons, 2,813 5-persons, 1,686 6-persons, 1,825 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 7,039 1-person, 1,230 2-persons, 119 3-persons, 33 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
16,613 married couples with children.
7,302 single-parent households (1,462 men, 5,840 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,131
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 269
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 679
| Here: | 20.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |