Rockford township, Winnebago County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (34% naturalized citizens)
| Rockford township: | 7.6% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
56% of Rockford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 118021
- Northeast: 3281
- Midwest: 23824
- South: 15368
- West: 3738
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $67,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
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 Rockford township, Illinois:
- 2,191 people in nursing homes
- 655 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 407 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 345 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 341 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 98 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 93 people in halfway houses
- 88 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 75 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 30 people in religious group quarters
- 28 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 24 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 24 people in other group homes
- 11 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 7 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 48,827
- One, attached: 2,207
- Two: 7,694
- 3 or 4: 5,352
- 5 to 9: 3,037
- 10 to 19: 2,425
- 20 to 49: 1,734
- 50 or more: 3,332
- Mobile homes: 1,267
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,700
Housing units in Rockford township with a mortgage: 27,734 (2,829 second mortgage, 3,760 home equity loan, 87 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 12,961
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rockford township:
- German (17.5%)
- Swedish (9.6%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Italian (7.1%)
- English (6.2%)
- United States or American (5.7%)
- Norwegian (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (49%)
- Laos (5%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (4%)
- Italy (4%)
- Poland (3%)
- Vietnam (3%)
- Germany (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 65,788 (82%)
- Carpooled: 9,348 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,167 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 33 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 10 (0%)
- Railroad: 15 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 24 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 24 (0%)
- Bicycle: 229 (0%)
- Walked: 1,391 (2%)
- Other means: 411 (1%)
- Worked at home: 2,007 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (90%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Rockford township, Illinois:
- 2,191 people in nursing homes
- 655 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 407 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 345 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 341 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 98 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 93 people in halfway houses
- 88 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 75 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 30 people in religious group quarters
- 28 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 24 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 24 people in other group homes
- 11 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 7 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
87.7% of residents of Rockford township speak English at home.
7.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (64% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 174,385- In family households: 144,512 (33,413 male householders, 12,425 female householders)
33,697 spouses, 52,273 children (47,690 natural, 1,405 adopted, 3,178 stepchildren), 3,567 grandchildren, 1,628 brothers or sisters, 1,215 parents, 2,350 other relatives, 3,944 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 29,873 (10,936 male householders (8,774 living alone)), 14,178 female householders (12,473 living alone)), 4,759 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4,400 (3,067 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 19,512 2-persons, 10,562 3-persons, 8,836 4-persons, 4,194 5-persons, 1,614 6-persons, 1,120 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 21,247 1-person, 3,319 2-persons, 370 3-persons, 115 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
26,651 married couples with children.
14,204 single-parent households (2,707 men, 11,497 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4,133
| Here: | 19.7% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1,888
| Here: | 19.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,651
| Here: | 24.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |