Sterling township, Whiteside County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (36% naturalized citizens)
Sterling township: | 5.0% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
56% of Sterling township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% 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: 14013
- Northeast: 242
- Midwest: 1804
- South: 1186
- West: 348
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $61,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
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
People in group quarters in Sterling township, Illinois:
- 245 people in nursing homes
- 95 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 66 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 44 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 16 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,620
- One, attached: 96
- Two: 625
- 3 or 4: 412
- 5 to 9: 441
- 10 to 19: 96
- 20 to 49: 169
- 50 or more: 242
- Mobile homes: 73
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Sterling township with a mortgage: 2,820 (319 second mortgage, 440 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,740
- Metal and metal products (23%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sterling township:
- German (26.4%)
- Irish (12.6%)
- United States or American (8.1%)
- English (7.1%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- Norwegian (2.1%)
- Swedish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (79%)
- Germany (4%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (2%)
- Korea (2%)
- United Kingdom (2%)
- Philippines (2%)
- Haiti (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,751 (80%)
- Carpooled: 1,122 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 117 (1%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 50 (1%)
- Walked: 173 (2%)
- Other means: 50 (1%)
- Worked at home: 196 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (85%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Sterling township, Illinois:
- 245 people in nursing homes
- 95 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 66 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 44 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 16 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
87.9% of residents of Sterling township speak English at home.
10.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (38% speak English very well, 48% speak English well, 2% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 18,215- In family households: 15,444 (3,867 male householders, 1,129 female householders)
3,867 spouses, 5,390 children (4,928 natural, 92 adopted, 370 stepchildren), 417 grandchildren, 127 brothers or sisters, 90 parents, 176 other relatives, 381 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,771 (1,075 male householders (906 living alone)), 1,316 female householders (1,198 living alone)), 380 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 479 (302 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,094 2-persons, 1,136 3-persons, 1,060 4-persons, 451 5-persons, 195 6-persons, 60 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,104 1-person, 258 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 15 4-persons,
3,052 married couples with children.
1,215 single-parent households (251 men, 964 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 262
Here: | 12.3% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 69
Here: | 6.5% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 37
Here: | 5.7% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |