Lockport township, Will County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (35% naturalized citizens)
| Lockport township: | 6.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
54% of Lockport township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 33582
- Northeast: 676
- Midwest: 2227
- South: 2194
- West: 579
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $135,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Lockport township, Illinois:
- 2,691 people in state prisons
- 898 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 145 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in nursing homes
- 16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,885
- One, attached: 1,385
- Two: 482
- 3 or 4: 470
- 5 to 9: 614
- 10 to 19: 874
- 20 to 49: 476
- 50 or more: 81
- Mobile homes: 121
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,100
Housing units in Lockport township with a mortgage: 7,619 (680 second mortgage, 1,032 home equity loan, 19 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,841
- Construction (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lockport township:
- German (18.2%)
- Irish (13.2%)
- Polish (12.3%)
- Italian (10.6%)
- United States or American (4.9%)
- English (3.9%)
- Swedish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (38%)
- Poland (9%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Other Eastern Europe (6%)
- Canada (4%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- India (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 16,521 (85%)
- Carpooled: 1,628 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 117 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Railroad: 273 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 20 (0%)
- Bicycle: 24 (0%)
- Walked: 427 (2%)
- Other means: 98 (1%)
- Worked at home: 306 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (93%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Lockport township, Illinois:
- 2,691 people in state prisons
- 898 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 145 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in nursing homes
- 16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 4 people in religious group quarters
89.2% of residents of Lockport township speak English at home.
6.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
3.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 38,257- In family households: 33,372 (8,240 male householders, 2,165 female householders)
8,404 spouses, 12,070 children (10,949 natural, 336 adopted, 785 stepchildren), 897 grandchildren, 237 brothers or sisters, 319 parents, 459 other relatives, 581 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,885 (2,035 male householders (1,581 living alone)), 2,058 female householders (1,805 living alone)), 792 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3,791 (2,823 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,109 2-persons, 2,535 3-persons, 2,136 4-persons, 1,028 5-persons, 407 6-persons, 190 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,386 1-person, 621 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 22 4-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
7,215 married couples with children.
1,751 single-parent households (459 men, 1,292 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 354
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 211
| Here: | 10.6% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,205
| Here: | 48.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |