Illinois: State Summary
SNAPS data is derived from the 2000 U.S. Census and several 2003 CDC databases. For more information, see the Credits page.
State Health Department
- Illinois Department of Public Health: 535 West Jefferson Street, Springfield
Population:
- Total Population: 12,419,293
- Males: 6,074,136
- Females: 6,345,157
Top 35 Languages spoken at home: (> 5000)
- English only (9,326,775)
- Spanish (1,253,670)
- Polish (185,500)
- German (63,365)
- Tagalog (62,044)
- Italian (51,695)
- Chinese (51,545)
- Korean (43,489)
- Greek (40,310)
- French (40,259)
- Russian (37,860)
- Arabic (35,063)
- Urdu (32,050)
- Gujarathi (28,345)
- Hindi (18,485)
- Vietnamese (16,180)
- Japanese (15,215)
- Syriac (13,135)
- Serbocroatian (12,600)
- Romanian (11,430)
- Ukrainian (11,175)
- Lithuanian (10,755)
- Serbian (10,630)
- Kru, Ibo, Yoruba (9,810)
- Malayalam (9,120)
- Czech (6,800)
- Telugu (6,160)
- Thai (6,054)
- Cantonese (5,945)
- Persian (5,875)
- Croatian (5,845)
- India, n.e.c. (5,585)
- Hebrew (5,550)
- Albanian (5,435)
- Tamil (5,110)
Top 5 Religions by Adherents:
- Catholic Church (3,874,933)
- United Methodist Church, The (365,182)
- Southern Baptist Convention (305,838)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (279,724)
- Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod (278,008)
Disabilities:
- Total Reported: 3,538,783
- Sensory: 318,119
- Physical: 814,354
- Mental: 466,288
- Self-care: 276,505
- Go outside home: 774,087
- Employment: 856,080
Grandparents as caregivers
Grandparents as caregivers: 103,717
Heating fuel:
- Total Reported: 4,591,779
- Utility gas: 3,698,099
- Bottled or LP gas: 229,004
- Electricity: 570,601
- Fuel oil, kerosene: 28,427
- Coal or Coke: 938
- Wood: 16,958
- Solar Energy: 773
- Other fuel: 25,144
- No fuel used: 21,835
Vehicles available:
- Total Reported: 8,372,990
- No vehicle: 882,248
- 1 or more vehicle: 7,490,742
Education Attainment:
- No School: 100,047
- No High School: 497,637
- Some High School: 882,759
- High School: 2,212,291
- Some College: 1,720,386
- Associate's Degree: 482,502
- College Degree: 1,317,182
- Master's Degree: 521,469
- Professional Degree: 167,427
- Doctoral Degree: 71,971
Household Phones:
- Households Reporting: 4,591,779
- Owners with phone: 3,057,188
- Owners without phone: 31,936
- Renters with phone: 1,395,663
- Renters without phone: 106,992
- Page last updated on Mar 12, 2007
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