Rockton township, Winnebago County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (27% naturalized citizens)
| Rockton township: | 3.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Rockton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6610
- Northeast: 345
- Midwest: 5106
- South: 651
- West: 356
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $147,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Rockton township, Illinois:
- 76 people in nursing homes
- 50 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,145
- One, attached: 124
- Two: 354
- 3 or 4: 125
- 5 to 9: 129
- 10 to 19: 96
- 50 or more: 99
- Mobile homes: 314
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,000
Housing units in Rockton township with a mortgage: 2,520 (311 second mortgage, 451 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 960
- Machinery (14%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Construction (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rockton township:
- German (27.0%)
- English (8.5%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- Norwegian (7.3%)
- Italian (6.2%)
- United States or American (5.7%)
- Swedish (5.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (53%)
- Philippines (10%)
- Poland (7%)
- Jamaica (6%)
- Germany (5%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- Korea (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,507 (84%)
- Carpooled: 671 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 21 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 119 (2%)
- Other means: 45 (1%)
- Worked at home: 169 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Rockton township, Illinois:
- 76 people in nursing homes
- 50 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 3 people in religious group quarters
94.3% of residents of Rockton township speak English at home.
4.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,431- In family households: 11,865 (3,134 male householders, 664 female householders)
3,211 spouses, 4,319 children (3,949 natural, 98 adopted, 272 stepchildren), 124 grandchildren, 45 brothers or sisters, 50 parents, 101 other relatives, 217 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,566 (720 male householders (588 living alone)), 649 female householders (605 living alone)), 197 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 130 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,612 2-persons, 800 3-persons, 870 4-persons, 351 5-persons, 85 6-persons, 80 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,193 1-person, 154 2-persons, 22 3-persons,
2,738 married couples with children.
743 single-parent households (193 men, 550 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 207
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 78
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 71
| Here: | 14.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |