Canteen township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 9 (26% naturalized citizens)
Canteen township: | 8.6% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
66% of Canteen township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7369
- Northeast: 47
- Midwest: 1869
- South: 1432
- West: 164
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $11,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Canteen township, Illinois:
- 596 people in state prisons
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,489
- One, attached: 58
- Two: 78
- 3 or 4: 115
- 5 to 9: 50
- 10 to 19: 91
- 20 to 49: 33
- Mobile homes: 631
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,300
Housing units in Canteen township with a mortgage: 1,050 (114 second mortgage, 132 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 993
- Construction (12%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Canteen township:
- German (7.1%)
- United States or American (4.8%)
- Irish (2.7%)
- Polish (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- English (1.7%)
- African (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (90%)
- Germany (3%)
- India (1%)
- Spain (1%)
- Pakistan (1%)
- Other Eastern Europe (1%)
- Philippines (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,431 (68%)
- Carpooled: 747 (21%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 212 (6%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 17 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Taxi: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 61 (2%)
- Other means: 54 (2%)
- Worked at home: 60 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Canteen township, Illinois:
- 596 people in state prisons
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in religious group quarters
86.4% of residents of Canteen township speak English at home.
11.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (32% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,396- In family households: 10,009 (1,472 male householders, 1,290 female householders)
1,455 spouses, 4,279 children (3,984 natural, 162 adopted, 133 stepchildren), 723 grandchildren, 173 brothers or sisters, 70 parents, 245 other relatives, 302 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,387 (734 male householders (643 living alone)), 469 female householders (409 living alone)), 184 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 610 (603 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 852 2-persons, 654 3-persons, 488 4-persons, 388 5-persons, 223 6-persons, 157 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,052 1-person, 139 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
1,320 married couples with children.
1,600 single-parent households (288 men, 1,312 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 196
Here: | 11.3% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 79
Here: | 8.8% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 2.8% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |