Port Byron township, Rock Island County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (81% naturalized citizens)
| Port Byron township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Port Byron township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 916
- Northeast: 28
- Midwest: 367
- South: 43
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $206,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 501
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 27
- 5 to 9: 84
- 10 to 19: 15
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $350,000
Housing units in Port Byron township with a mortgage: 232 (21 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 181
- Construction (18%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Construction (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Port Byron township:
- German (33.1%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- English (9.7%)
- Belgian (8.1%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- Swedish (6.9%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (38%)
- Other Western Europe (31%)
- United Kingdom (19%)
- Hungary (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 576 (85%)
- Carpooled: 59 (9%)
- Walked: 16 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 21 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.3% of residents of Port Byron township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,389- In family households: 1,134 (322 male householders, 76 female householders)
345 spouses, 339 children (296 natural, 17 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 11 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 255 (103 male householders (91 living alone)), 126 female householders (117 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 231 2-persons, 77 3-persons, 43 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 208 1-person, 21 2-persons,
222 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (13 men, 51 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 17.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |