Big Rock township, Kane County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Big Rock township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
73% of Big Rock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 95% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1555
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 234
- South: 44
- West: 71
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 684
- Two: 16
Housing units in Big Rock township with a mortgage: 376 (25 second mortgage, 109 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 111
- Construction (25%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- U. S. Postal service (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Painters and paperhangers (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Rock township:
- German (27.5%)
- English (11.3%)
- United States or American (10.4%)
- Irish (6.6%)
- Norwegian (6.4%)
- French (except Basque) (5.5%)
- Polish (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (53%)
- Mexico (47%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 966 (88%)
- Carpooled: 42 (4%)
- Worked at home: 87 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
98.1% of residents of Big Rock township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 41% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,957- In family households: 1,879 (558 male householders, 39 female householders)
568 spouses, 678 children (609 natural, 27 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 8 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 78 (26 male householders (16 living alone)), 36 female householders (31 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 286 2-persons, 123 3-persons, 78 4-persons, 79 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 47 1-person, 15 2-persons,
444 married couples with children.
50 single-parent households (12 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
| Here: | 14.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 44.8% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |