Belvidere township, Boone County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (25% naturalized citizens)
| Belvidere township: | 10.2% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
55% of Belvidere township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 17134
- Northeast: 462
- Midwest: 3386
- South: 1109
- West: 447
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $99,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
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
People in group quarters in Belvidere township, Illinois:
- 142 people in nursing homes
- 53 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,650
- One, attached: 191
- Two: 629
- 3 or 4: 407
- 5 to 9: 465
- 10 to 19: 256
- 20 to 49: 67
- 50 or more: 251
- Mobile homes: 548
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,800
Housing units in Belvidere township with a mortgage: 4,212 (377 second mortgage, 705 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,376
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Belvidere township:
- German (26.1%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- English (7.7%)
- United States or American (6.5%)
- Swedish (6.2%)
- Italian (4.7%)
- Polish (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (81%)
- Other Eastern Europe (3%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Italy (2%)
- Canada (2%)
- Germany (1%)
- Dominican Republic (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,383 (80%)
- Carpooled: 1,756 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 41 (0%)
- Railroad: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 24 (0%)
- Walked: 207 (2%)
- Other means: 53 (0%)
- Worked at home: 261 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Belvidere township, Illinois:
- 142 people in nursing homes
- 53 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
84.2% of residents of Belvidere township speak English at home.
14.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 25,082- In family households: 22,499 (5,520 male householders, 1,296 female householders)
5,495 spouses, 8,461 children (7,724 natural, 73 adopted, 664 stepchildren), 231 grandchildren, 244 brothers or sisters, 117 parents, 556 other relatives, 579 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,583 (926 male householders (756 living alone)), 1,259 female householders (1,127 living alone)), 398 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 209 (200 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,570 2-persons, 1,465 3-persons, 1,537 4-persons, 756 5-persons, 320 6-persons, 168 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,883 1-person, 245 2-persons, 33 3-persons, 15 4-persons, 9 5-persons,
5,511 married couples with children.
1,403 single-parent households (344 men, 1,059 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 546
| Here: | 15.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 170
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 123
| Here: | 16.3% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |