Rock Run township, Stephenson County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (94% naturalized citizens)
| Rock Run township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
63% of Rock Run township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1648
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 323
- South: 57
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $80,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 733
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 25
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 50
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,400
Housing units in Rock Run township with a mortgage: 314 (24 second mortgage, 42 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 187
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (21%)
- Construction (11%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Food (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Run township:
- German (53.0%)
- United States or American (7.1%)
- Swedish (5.3%)
- Swiss (4.4%)
- Italian (3.9%)
- Irish (3.6%)
- Norwegian (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (43%)
- Other Western Europe (34%)
- Ukraine (14%)
- Mexico (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 852 (81%)
- Carpooled: 53 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 123 (12%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (51%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
96.8% of residents of Rock Run township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,120- In family households: 1,860 (509 male householders, 68 female householders)
505 spouses, 723 children (643 natural, 9 adopted, 71 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 11 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 260 (108 male householders (99 living alone)), 128 female householders (113 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 202 2-persons, 114 3-persons, 167 4-persons, 75 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 212 1-person, 20 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
518 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (28 men, 76 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 2.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 9.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |