Belleville township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Belleville township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
56% of Belleville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 41% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 28013
- Northeast: 911
- Midwest: 7280
- South: 3433
- West: 1282
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Belleville township, Illinois:
- 928 people in nursing homes
- 323 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 56 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 49 people in religious group quarters
- 41 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 20 people in other group homes
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 12 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 6 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 5 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 12,565
- One, attached: 666
- Two: 1,244
- 3 or 4: 1,448
- 5 to 9: 1,446
- 10 to 19: 841
- 20 to 49: 301
- 50 or more: 152
- Mobile homes: 631
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,100
Housing units in Belleville township with a mortgage: 6,050 (674 second mortgage, 833 home equity loan, 40 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,766
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Belleville township:
- German (34.8%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- English (6.8%)
- French (except Basque) (3.6%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (17%)
- Philippines (12%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Mexico (8%)
- India (6%)
- Canada (5%)
- Korea (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 16,334 (82%)
- Carpooled: 2,108 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 450 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 21 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 80 (0%)
- Railroad: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 10 (0%)
- Bicycle: 51 (0%)
- Walked: 419 (2%)
- Other means: 48 (0%)
- Worked at home: 438 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Belleville township, Illinois:
- 928 people in nursing homes
- 323 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 56 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 49 people in religious group quarters
- 41 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 20 people in other group homes
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 12 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 6 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 5 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.7% of residents of Belleville township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (64% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 32% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 40,688- In family households: 32,523 (7,586 male householders, 3,234 female householders)
7,700 spouses, 11,779 children (10,677 natural, 286 adopted, 816 stepchildren), 635 grandchildren, 183 brothers or sisters, 281 parents, 274 other relatives, 851 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 8,165 (2,893 male householders (2,427 living alone)), 4,182 female householders (3,804 living alone)), 1,090 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,477 (1,317 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,987 2-persons, 2,422 3-persons, 2,103 4-persons, 844 5-persons, 311 6-persons, 153 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 6,231 1-person, 719 2-persons, 71 3-persons, 17 4-persons, 6 5-persons, 31 6-persons,
5,900 married couples with children.
2,884 single-parent households (529 men, 2,355 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 807
| Here: | 17.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 352
| Here: | 15.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 403
| Here: | 18.0% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |