Dorr township, McHenry County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 15 (26% naturalized citizens)
| Dorr township: | 15.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
53% of Dorr township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11918
- Northeast: 366
- Midwest: 2015
- South: 568
- West: 391
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $308,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
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 Dorr township, Illinois:
- 189 people in nursing homes
- 94 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 31 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,249
- One, attached: 441
- Two: 543
- 3 or 4: 351
- 5 to 9: 582
- 10 to 19: 337
- 20 to 49: 262
- 50 or more: 248
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Dorr township with a mortgage: 2,836 (237 second mortgage, 357 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 861
- Construction (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dorr township:
- German (28.6%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- English (6.4%)
- Polish (6.4%)
- Italian (5.0%)
- United States or American (3.6%)
- Norwegian (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (72%)
- Germany (4%)
- Poland (4%)
- Other Eastern Europe (3%)
- India (3%)
- Philippines (2%)
- Korea (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,392 (78%)
- Carpooled: 1,160 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 108 (1%)
- Railroad: 246 (3%)
- Taxi: 12 (0%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 211 (2%)
- Other means: 63 (1%)
- Worked at home: 249 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (81%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Dorr township, Illinois:
- 189 people in nursing homes
- 94 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 31 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 3 people in religious group quarters
81.0% of residents of Dorr township speak English at home.
15.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
3.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 17,831- In family households: 15,131 (3,655 male householders, 952 female householders)
3,862 spouses, 5,548 children (5,182 natural, 72 adopted, 294 stepchildren), 118 grandchildren, 234 brothers or sisters, 107 parents, 293 other relatives, 362 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,700 (1,024 male householders (724 living alone)), 1,114 female householders (1,024 living alone)), 562 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 341 (205 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,706 2-persons, 1,010 3-persons, 1,066 4-persons, 460 5-persons, 230 6-persons, 135 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,748 1-person, 321 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 26 5-persons,
3,781 married couples with children.
837 single-parent households (199 men, 638 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 236
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 176
| Here: | 17.3% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 108
| Here: | 14.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |