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Across the 226 Illinois towns we route calls in, 49% of housing units are detached houses and 43% are in multi-unit buildings. That split decides who owns the machine under the sink, which decides who pays for it.
The quick answer
Illinois runs 49% detached houses, 43% multi-unit and 1% manufactured across the 226 towns covered here. In a house the disposal is usually the occupant's; in a rented apartment it is usually the landlord's.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25024.
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How Illinois is built
| Housing type | Share of housing units |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 49% |
| Attached houses | 7% |
| Multi-unit buildings | 43% |
| Manufactured and mobile homes | 1% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25024 (units in structure), 2023 release. Universe: 3,478,633 housing units including vacant ones, across the areas we cover.
The state does not divide evenly: 114 Illinois towns lead on detached houses, 74 Illinois towns lead on single-family housing, 22 Illinois towns lead on a mix of building types, 11 Illinois towns lead on multi-unit buildings, 5 Illinois towns lead on manufactured homes. That is why the town pages below carry their own figure rather than inheriting this one.
The largest towns we route
| Town | Detached | Multi-unit | Housing units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago | 26% | 71% | 1,261,319 |
| Rockford | 65% | 30% | 81,751 |
| Aurora | 59% | 24% | 65,776 |
| Naperville | 64% | 24% | 63,699 |
| Joliet | 69% | 23% | 49,727 |
| Elgin | 64% | 20% | 44,047 |
| Des Plaines | 45% | 40% | 35,963 |
| Evanston | 34% | 61% | 35,686 |
Checking a plumber in Illinois
Illinois licenses are issued by the Illinois Department of Public Health, Plumbing Program, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Towns we route in Illinois
- Addison 57% detached · 35% multi-unit
- Algonquin 76% detached · 7% multi-unit
- Alsip 57% detached · 36% multi-unit
- Alto Pass 78% detached · 4% multi-unit
- Anna 73% detached · 15% multi-unit
- Arlington Heights 53% detached · 39% multi-unit
- Aurora 59% detached · 24% multi-unit
- Ava 84% detached · 4% multi-unit
- Barrington 81% detached · 11% multi-unit
- Bartlett 70% detached · 12% multi-unit
- Batavia 69% detached · 20% multi-unit
- Bellwood 74% detached · 20% multi-unit
- Belvidere 76% detached · 13% multi-unit
- Bensenville 52% detached · 44% multi-unit
- Berkeley 86% detached · 14% multi-unit
- Berwyn 56% detached · 43% multi-unit
- Bloomingdale 45% detached · 32% multi-unit
- Blue Island 42% detached · 45% multi-unit
- Bolingbrook 72% detached · 13% multi-unit
- Bridgeview 50% detached · 29% multi-unit
- Broadview 60% detached · 38% multi-unit
- Brookfield 74% detached · 23% multi-unit
- Buffalo Grove 54% detached · 32% multi-unit
- Burbank 80% detached · 18% multi-unit
- Byron 85% detached · 10% multi-unit
- Cairo 76% detached · 22% multi-unit
- Caledonia 97% detached · 0% multi-unit
- Calumet City 53% detached · 39% multi-unit
- Campbell Hill 78% detached · 2% multi-unit
- Capron 79% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Carbondale 40% detached · 48% multi-unit
- Carol Stream 51% detached · 33% multi-unit
- Carpentersville 68% detached · 15% multi-unit
- Cary 85% detached · 4% multi-unit
- Cedarville 91% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Chana 98% detached · under 1% multi-unit
- Cherry Valley 83% detached · 11% multi-unit
- Chicago 26% detached · 71% multi-unit
- Chicago Heights 68% detached · 19% multi-unit
- Chicago Ridge 34% detached · 63% multi-unit
- Cicero 42% detached · 56% multi-unit
- Clarendon Hills 66% detached · 30% multi-unit
- Cobden 85% detached · 7% multi-unit
- Country Club Hills 72% detached · 11% multi-unit
- Crest Hill 47% detached · 30% multi-unit
- Crestwood 42% detached · 56% multi-unit
- Crystal Lake 72% detached · 17% multi-unit
- Dakota 92% detached · 8% multi-unit
- Darien 63% detached · 22% multi-unit
- Davis 95% detached · 4% multi-unit
- Davis Junction 83% detached · 2% multi-unit
- De Soto 64% detached · 15% multi-unit
- Deerfield 73% detached · 16% multi-unit
- Des Plaines 45% detached · 40% multi-unit
- Dolton 80% detached · 19% multi-unit
- Dongola 75% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Downers Grove 66% detached · 28% multi-unit
- Dundee 65% detached · 26% multi-unit
- Durand 84% detached · 13% multi-unit
- Elgin 64% detached · 20% multi-unit
- Elk Grove Village 58% detached · 29% multi-unit
- Elkville 69% detached · 7% multi-unit
- Elmhurst 74% detached · 22% multi-unit
- Elmwood Park 53% detached · 44% multi-unit
- Evanston 34% detached · 61% multi-unit
- Evergreen Park 86% detached · 13% multi-unit
- Flossmoor 85% detached · 11% multi-unit
- Forest Park 30% detached · 64% multi-unit
- Forreston 90% detached · 7% multi-unit
- Fox River Grove 96% detached · 3% multi-unit
- Frankfort 81% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Franklin Park 75% detached · 23% multi-unit
- Freeport 70% detached · 21% multi-unit
- Garden Prairie 91% detached · 0% multi-unit
- Geneva 75% detached · 15% multi-unit
- German Valley 91% detached · 8% multi-unit
- Gilberts 72% detached · 0% multi-unit
- Glen Ellyn 70% detached · 24% multi-unit
- Glencoe 90% detached · 7% multi-unit
- Glendale Heights 46% detached · 34% multi-unit
- Glenview 58% detached · 29% multi-unit
- Glenwood 82% detached · 17% multi-unit
- Gorham 88% detached · 0% multi-unit
- Grand Chain 73% detached · 4% multi-unit
- Grand Tower 80% detached · 6% multi-unit
- Grayslake 66% detached · 15% multi-unit
- Gurnee 63% detached · 22% multi-unit
- Hanover Park 51% detached · 17% multi-unit
- Harvey 66% detached · 26% multi-unit
- Harwood Heights 64% detached · 35% multi-unit
- Hazel Crest 78% detached · 16% multi-unit
- Hickory Hills 59% detached · 34% multi-unit
- Highland Park 75% detached · 21% multi-unit
- Highwood 44% detached · 51% multi-unit
- Hillside 66% detached · 34% multi-unit
- Hinsdale 83% detached · 8% multi-unit
- Hoffman Estates 61% detached · 24% multi-unit
- Homer Glen 89% detached · 6% multi-unit
- Hometown 12% detached · 23% multi-unit
- Homewood 79% detached · 19% multi-unit
- Island Lake 75% detached · 3% multi-unit
- Itasca 54% detached · 31% multi-unit
- Joliet 69% detached · 23% multi-unit
- Jonesboro 71% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Justice 33% detached · 45% multi-unit
- Karnak 79% detached · 2% multi-unit
- Kenilworth 96% detached · 2% multi-unit
- La Grange 54% detached · 32% multi-unit
- La Grange Park 67% detached · 31% multi-unit
- Lake Bluff 66% detached · 27% multi-unit
- Lake Forest 78% detached · 15% multi-unit
- Lake In The Hills 74% detached · 8% multi-unit
- Lake Zurich 88% detached · 8% multi-unit
- Lansing 72% detached · 24% multi-unit
- Leaf River 95% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Lemont 79% detached · 11% multi-unit
- Lena 84% detached · 11% multi-unit
- Libertyville 75% detached · 18% multi-unit
- Lincolnshire 53% detached · 34% multi-unit
- Lincolnwood 73% detached · 22% multi-unit
- Lisle 43% detached · 49% multi-unit
- Lockport 72% detached · 12% multi-unit
- Lombard 58% detached · 36% multi-unit
- Loves Park 58% detached · 27% multi-unit
- Lyons 62% detached · 36% multi-unit
- Machesney Park 88% detached · 9% multi-unit
- Makanda 79% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Markham 95% detached · 2% multi-unit
- Matteson 64% detached · 16% multi-unit
- Maywood 65% detached · 33% multi-unit
- McClure 84% detached · 0% multi-unit
- Medinah 100% detached · 0% multi-unit
- Melrose Park 56% detached · 38% multi-unit
- Midlothian 77% detached · 22% multi-unit
- Mokena 77% detached · 9% multi-unit
- Monroe Center 92% detached · 7% multi-unit
- Montgomery 78% detached · 8% multi-unit
- Morton Grove 76% detached · 19% multi-unit
- Mound City 54% detached · 34% multi-unit
- Mounds 75% detached · 15% multi-unit
- Mount Morris 69% detached · 18% multi-unit
- Mount Prospect 57% detached · 39% multi-unit
- Mundelein 69% detached · 20% multi-unit
- Murphysboro 65% detached · 21% multi-unit
- Naperville 64% detached · 24% multi-unit
- New Lenox 86% detached · 6% multi-unit
- Niles 54% detached · 38% multi-unit
- North Aurora 65% detached · 20% multi-unit
- Northbrook 61% detached · 27% multi-unit
- Oak Brook 61% detached · 25% multi-unit
- Oak Forest 69% detached · 27% multi-unit
- Oak Lawn 68% detached · 30% multi-unit
- Oak Park 40% detached · 56% multi-unit
- Olympia Fields 82% detached · 9% multi-unit
- Orangeville 75% detached · 24% multi-unit
- Oregon 83% detached · 16% multi-unit
- Orland Park 61% detached · 20% multi-unit
- Oswego 72% detached · 12% multi-unit
- Palatine 46% detached · 39% multi-unit
- Palos Heights 65% detached · 14% multi-unit
- Palos Hills 42% detached · 46% multi-unit
- Palos Park 72% detached · 20% multi-unit
- Park Forest 62% detached · 12% multi-unit
- Park Ridge 72% detached · 23% multi-unit
- Pearl City 94% detached · 6% multi-unit
- Pecatonica 86% detached · 9% multi-unit
- Plainfield 80% detached · 6% multi-unit
- Polo 92% detached · 7% multi-unit
- Poplar Grove 91% detached · 1% multi-unit
- Posen 88% detached · 12% multi-unit
- Prospect Heights 38% detached · 52% multi-unit
- Richton Park 53% detached · 38% multi-unit
- Ridott 90% detached · 4% multi-unit
- River Forest 61% detached · 34% multi-unit
- River Grove 48% detached · 51% multi-unit
- Riverdale 47% detached · 35% multi-unit
- Riverside 71% detached · 26% multi-unit
- Robbins 70% detached · 23% multi-unit
- Rochelle 73% detached · 21% multi-unit
- Rock City 92% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Rockford 65% detached · 30% multi-unit
- Rockton 83% detached · 10% multi-unit
- Rolling Meadows 56% detached · 36% multi-unit
- Romeoville 70% detached · 14% multi-unit
- Roscoe 82% detached · 13% multi-unit
- Roselle 60% detached · 25% multi-unit
- Saint Charles 74% detached · 17% multi-unit
- Schaumburg 34% detached · 46% multi-unit
- Schiller Park 44% detached · 50% multi-unit
- Shorewood 81% detached · 4% multi-unit
- Skokie 54% detached · 42% multi-unit
- South Beloit 76% detached · 13% multi-unit
- South Elgin 68% detached · 16% multi-unit
- South Holland 95% detached · 2% multi-unit
- Steger 69% detached · 29% multi-unit
- Stillman Valley 93% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Stone Park 46% detached · 40% multi-unit
- Streamwood 67% detached · 9% multi-unit
- Summit Argo 56% detached · 40% multi-unit
- Tamms 73% detached · 2% multi-unit
- Thebes 79% detached · 1% multi-unit
- Thornton 85% detached · 14% multi-unit
- Tinley Park 58% detached · 22% multi-unit
- Ullin 47% detached · 12% multi-unit
- Vergennes 86% detached · under 1% multi-unit
- Vernon Hills 39% detached · 37% multi-unit
- Villa Park 61% detached · 29% multi-unit
- Warrenville 46% detached · 27% multi-unit
- Wauconda 76% detached · 14% multi-unit
- Wayne 97% detached · 0% multi-unit
- West Chicago 76% detached · 17% multi-unit
- Westchester 83% detached · 9% multi-unit
- Western Springs 89% detached · 5% multi-unit
- Westmont 45% detached · 45% multi-unit
- Wheaton 63% detached · 27% multi-unit
- Wheeling 27% detached · 55% multi-unit
- Willow Springs 63% detached · 21% multi-unit
- Willowbrook 53% detached · 39% multi-unit
- Wilmette 77% detached · 17% multi-unit
- Winfield 72% detached · 10% multi-unit
- Winnebago 91% detached · 6% multi-unit
- Winnetka 80% detached · 12% multi-unit
- Winslow 92% detached · 8% multi-unit
- Wood Dale 56% detached · 27% multi-unit
- Woodridge 52% detached · 43% multi-unit
- Worth 52% detached · 38% multi-unit
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