Freeport township, Stephenson County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (28% naturalized citizens)
| Freeport township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
55% of Freeport 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, 58% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 19024
- Northeast: 466
- Midwest: 3913
- South: 1658
- West: 534
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $78,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
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 Freeport township, Illinois:
- 460 people in nursing homes
- 107 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 88 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 49 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 14 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,818
- One, attached: 356
- Two: 1,058
- 3 or 4: 968
- 5 to 9: 653
- 10 to 19: 214
- 20 to 49: 147
- 50 or more: 470
- Mobile homes: 795
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Freeport township with a mortgage: 3,933 (345 second mortgage, 475 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,531
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (12%)
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Freeport township:
- German (37.5%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- United States or American (6.6%)
- English (5.7%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- Norwegian (2.6%)
- Polish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (36%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Korea (6%)
- Greece (6%)
- France (4%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (4%)
- Philippines (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,690 (82%)
- Carpooled: 1,450 (12%)
- Taxi: 137 (1%)
- Bicycle: 24 (0%)
- Walked: 320 (3%)
- Other means: 26 (0%)
- Worked at home: 208 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Freeport township, Illinois:
- 460 people in nursing homes
- 107 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 88 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 49 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 14 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 2 people in religious group quarters
94.8% of residents of Freeport township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (54% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (73% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 25,708- In family households: 20,691 (5,094 male householders, 1,792 female householders)
5,086 spouses, 7,465 children (6,921 natural, 207 adopted, 337 stepchildren), 316 grandchildren, 128 brothers or sisters, 74 parents, 163 other relatives, 573 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,017 (1,712 male householders (1,389 living alone)), 2,633 female householders (2,393 living alone)), 672 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 732 (557 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,299 2-persons, 1,469 3-persons, 1,315 4-persons, 549 5-persons, 170 6-persons, 84 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,782 1-person, 489 2-persons, 56 3-persons, 12 4-persons, 6 5-persons,
3,781 married couples with children.
2,094 single-parent households (359 men, 1,735 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 580
| Here: | 20.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 37
| Here: | 2.7% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 134
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |