Cortland township, DeKalb County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Cortland township: | 3.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
52% of Cortland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5342
- Northeast: 149
- Midwest: 803
- South: 329
- West: 160
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $152,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
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
15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,762
- One, attached: 296
- Two: 119
- 3 or 4: 159
- 5 to 9: 158
- 10 to 19: 37
- 20 to 49: 27
- 50 or more: 22
- Mobile homes: 107
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,500
Housing units in Cortland township with a mortgage: 1,319 (95 second mortgage, 238 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 380
- Construction (13%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cortland township:
- German (26.6%)
- United States or American (11.8%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- English (7.4%)
- Polish (5.1%)
- Norwegian (5.0%)
- Swedish (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (20%)
- Yugoslavia (12%)
- Russia (8%)
- Other Eastern Europe (8%)
- Taiwan (7%)
- India (6%)
- Vietnam (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,170 (88%)
- Carpooled: 308 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (0%)
- Railroad: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 83 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (84%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
92.7% of residents of Cortland township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (53% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,102- In family households: 6,281 (1,558 male householders, 326 female householders)
1,624 spouses, 2,553 children (2,410 natural, 52 adopted, 91 stepchildren), 88 grandchildren, 23 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 22 other relatives, 78 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 821 (307 male householders (224 living alone)), 384 female householders (350 living alone)), 130 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 15 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 674 2-persons, 391 3-persons, 485 4-persons, 251 5-persons, 49 6-persons, 34 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 574 1-person, 113 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
1,659 married couples with children.
330 single-parent households (85 men, 245 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 58
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 32
| Here: | 9.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |