Rock Creek-Lima township, Carroll County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (75% naturalized citizens)
Rock Creek-Lima township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Rock Creek-Lima township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1911
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 203
- South: 62
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 835
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 23
- 5 to 9: 22
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 9
- Mobile homes: 17
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Rock Creek-Lima township with a mortgage: 308 (28 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 273
- Machinery (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Construction (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Creek-Lima township:
- German (54.1%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- United States or American (7.2%)
- English (6.3%)
- Dutch (3.7%)
- Swedish (2.6%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (25%)
- Germany (25%)
- Philippines (25%)
- Canada (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 741 (69%)
- Carpooled: 164 (15%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (5%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 107 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.3% of residents of Rock Creek-Lima township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,230- In family households: 1,944 (530 male householders, 96 female householders)
543 spouses, 698 children (653 natural, 12 adopted, 33 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 24 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 286 (118 male householders (90 living alone)), 122 female householders (115 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 16 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 259 2-persons, 123 3-persons, 157 4-persons, 56 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 205 1-person, 30 2-persons, 5 4-persons,
433 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (21 men, 69 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
Here: | 1.9% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |