Chouteau township, Madison County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (46% naturalized citizens)
Chouteau township: | 1.4% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Chouteau township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5461
- Northeast: 92
- Midwest: 1404
- South: 689
- West: 254
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,683
- One, attached: 38
- Two: 39
- 3 or 4: 44
- 5 to 9: 27
- 10 to 19: 95
- Mobile homes: 350
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,400
Housing units in Chouteau township with a mortgage: 1,472 (129 second mortgage, 127 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 743
- Metal and metal products (21%)
- Construction (12%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chouteau township:
- German (23.0%)
- United States or American (17.1%)
- Irish (14.7%)
- English (10.4%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- French (except Basque) (4.1%)
- Dutch (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (41%)
- Philippines (12%)
- India (11%)
- Spain (10%)
- Mexico (10%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Guatemala (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,098 (85%)
- Carpooled: 358 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 21 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 40 (1%)
- Other means: 44 (1%)
- Worked at home: 86 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.6% of residents of Chouteau township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 1% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,031- In family households: 7,068 (1,789 male householders, 491 female householders)
1,772 spouses, 2,501 children (2,144 natural, 72 adopted, 285 stepchildren), 211 grandchildren, 53 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 72 other relatives, 165 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 963 (434 male householders (312 living alone)), 349 female householders (308 living alone)), 180 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 14 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 940 2-persons, 500 3-persons, 518 4-persons, 244 5-persons, 62 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 620 1-person, 138 2-persons, 22 3-persons, 1 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
1,344 married couples with children.
486 single-parent households (124 men, 362 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 38
Here: | 4.0% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
Here: | 5.1% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
Here: | 8.3% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |