Rock Island township, Rock Island County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Rock Island township: | 4.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
50% of Rock Island township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11235
- Northeast: 161
- Midwest: 3436
- South: 1827
- West: 471
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Rock Island township, Illinois:
- 1,136 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 168 people in nursing homes
- 135 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 122 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 25 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 25 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 15 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,388
- One, attached: 220
- Two: 991
- 3 or 4: 640
- 5 to 9: 335
- 10 to 19: 238
- 20 to 49: 180
- 50 or more: 541
- Mobile homes: 18
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Rock Island township with a mortgage: 1,851 (272 second mortgage, 168 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,099
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Island township:
- German (16.7%)
- United States or American (9.2%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- English (4.1%)
- Italian (3.1%)
- Swedish (3.0%)
- Belgian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (65%)
- Germany (6%)
- Romania (4%)
- Canada (3%)
- Philippines (2%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (2%)
- Japan (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,311 (70%)
- Carpooled: 1,038 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 187 (2%)
- Taxi: 38 (1%)
- Bicycle: 27 (0%)
- Walked: 748 (10%)
- Other means: 99 (1%)
- Worked at home: 140 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Rock Island township, Illinois:
- 1,136 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 168 people in nursing homes
- 135 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 122 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 25 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 25 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 15 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in other group homes
92.0% of residents of Rock Island township speak English at home.
5.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (59% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,385- In family households: 12,741 (2,115 male householders, 1,620 female householders)
2,114 spouses, 5,175 children (4,719 natural, 166 adopted, 290 stepchildren), 700 grandchildren, 200 brothers or sisters, 62 parents, 267 other relatives, 488 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,644 (1,436 male householders (1,139 living alone)), 1,403 female householders (1,156 living alone)), 805 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,610 (342 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,358 2-persons, 928 3-persons, 699 4-persons, 391 5-persons, 224 6-persons, 135 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,295 1-person, 404 2-persons, 87 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 10 5-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
1,918 married couples with children.
1,984 single-parent households (266 men, 1,718 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 141
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 144
| Here: | 16.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,349
| Here: | 63.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |