Lyons township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 14 (44% naturalized citizens)
Lyons township: | 14.1% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
64% of Lyons township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 77902
- Northeast: 2521
- Midwest: 6861
- South: 4475
- West: 1356
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $208,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Lyons township, Illinois:
- 1,001 people in nursing homes
- 193 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 73 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 43 people in other group homes
- 37 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 24,522
- One, attached: 2,093
- Two: 2,478
- 3 or 4: 2,622
- 5 to 9: 3,068
- 10 to 19: 2,454
- 20 to 49: 2,056
- 50 or more: 983
- Mobile homes: 1,966
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,000
Housing units in Lyons township with a mortgage: 16,419 (1,293 second mortgage, 2,430 home equity loan, 101 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 7,553
- Construction (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lyons township:
- Polish (15.3%)
- Irish (14.1%)
- German (12.1%)
- Italian (8.7%)
- English (3.8%)
- Czech (3.7%)
- United States or American (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (30%)
- Poland (20%)
- Other Eastern Europe (7%)
- Yugoslavia (6%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (3%)
- Germany (2%)
- Philippines (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 39,069 (75%)
- Carpooled: 4,880 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 651 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 18 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 377 (1%)
- Railroad: 3,441 (7%)
- Ferryboat: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 63 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 14 (0%)
- Bicycle: 196 (0%)
- Walked: 1,254 (2%)
- Other means: 360 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,566 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (90%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Lyons township, Illinois:
- 1,001 people in nursing homes
- 193 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 73 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 43 people in other group homes
- 37 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
78.0% of residents of Lyons township speak English at home.
9.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
10.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (55% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other language at home (62% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 107,901- In family households: 93,852 (22,201 male householders, 6,448 female householders)
22,992 spouses, 35,242 children (33,532 natural, 853 adopted, 857 stepchildren), 1,491 grandchildren, 1,248 brothers or sisters, 1,053 parents, 1,759 other relatives, 1,418 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 14,049 (5,231 male householders (4,220 living alone)), 6,610 female householders (5,853 living alone)), 2,208 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,363 (1,053 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 11,002 2-persons, 6,428 3-persons, 6,098 4-persons, 3,296 5-persons, 1,184 6-persons, 641 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10,073 1-person, 1,518 2-persons, 161 3-persons, 39 4-persons, 27 5-persons, 23 6-persons,
21,744 married couples with children.
4,593 single-parent households (1,045 men, 3,548 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,261
Here: | 17.3% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 957
Here: | 16.7% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,040
Here: | 24.8% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |