Stockton township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Stockton township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
61% of Stockton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1866
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 452
- South: 51
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $74,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
47 people in nursing homes
19 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 854
- One, attached: 33
- Two: 69
- 3 or 4: 31
- 5 to 9: 40
- 10 to 19: 6
- Mobile homes: 106
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,300
Housing units in Stockton township with a mortgage: 343 (18 second mortgage, 44 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 280
- Construction (17%)
- Food (11%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (7%)
- Food (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Stockton township:
- German (49.5%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- United States or American (9.4%)
- English (6.5%)
- Dutch (3.0%)
- Swiss (2.5%)
- Norwegian (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (30%)
- Other Western Europe (25%)
- Iraq (20%)
- Philippines (10%)
- Egypt (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,013 (79%)
- Carpooled: 131 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 71 (6%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 51 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (1%)
47 people in nursing homes
19 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.2% of residents of Stockton township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,386- In family households: 1,971 (544 male householders, 124 female householders)
585 spouses, 623 children (540 natural, 17 adopted, 66 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 10 other relatives, 55 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 415 (148 male householders (117 living alone)), 223 female householders (202 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 65 (48 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 343 2-persons, 132 3-persons, 117 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 319 1-person, 49 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
453 married couples with children.
131 single-parent households (40 men, 91 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |