Pecatonica township, Winnebago County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (88% naturalized citizens)
| Pecatonica township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Pecatonica township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2407
- Northeast: 28
- Midwest: 369
- South: 96
- West: 49
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $181,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,034
- One, attached: 28
- Two: 47
- 3 or 4: 33
- 5 to 9: 38
- 10 to 19: 2
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,100
Housing units in Pecatonica township with a mortgage: 548 (70 second mortgage, 101 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 291
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pecatonica township:
- German (41.6%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- Swedish (8.9%)
- English (8.4%)
- United States or American (7.3%)
- Italian (5.6%)
- Norwegian (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (31%)
- Mexico (31%)
- United Kingdom (27%)
- Canada (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,255 (81%)
- Carpooled: 162 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 45 (3%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 66 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
96.7% of residents of Pecatonica township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,992- In family households: 2,675 (717 male householders, 146 female householders)
754 spouses, 986 children (868 natural, 30 adopted, 88 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 10 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 317 (97 male householders (66 living alone)), 167 female householders (154 living alone)), 53 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 362 2-persons, 217 3-persons, 182 4-persons, 84 5-persons, 18 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 220 1-person, 36 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
624 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (45 men, 92 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 3.3% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
| Here: | 26.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |