Bowling township, Rock Island County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (52% naturalized citizens)
Bowling township: | 0.8% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
68% of Bowling township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3293
- Northeast: 48
- Midwest: 689
- South: 183
- West: 52
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $94,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
1,098 people in state prisons
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,121
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 25
- Mobile homes: 70
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Bowling township with a mortgage: 572 (27 second mortgage, 65 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 265
- Construction (14%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bowling township:
- German (28.5%)
- Irish (13.8%)
- English (12.6%)
- United States or American (9.7%)
- Swedish (8.4%)
- Belgian (5.7%)
- Italian (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (48%)
- Mexico (30%)
- Guatemala (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,578 (88%)
- Carpooled: 169 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (0%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 35 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
1,098 people in state prisons
97.3% of residents of Bowling township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,226- In family households: 2,920 (852 male householders, 135 female householders)
826 spouses, 965 children (860 natural, 22 adopted, 83 stepchildren), 32 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 33 other relatives, 48 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 306 (161 male householders (111 living alone)), 60 female householders (49 living alone)), 85 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,107 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 432 2-persons, 225 3-persons, 215 4-persons, 61 5-persons, 41 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 160 1-person, 42 2-persons, 16 3-persons, 3 5-persons,
565 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (41 men, 49 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 1.7% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
Here: | 6.3% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 1.7% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |