Marissa township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (85% naturalized citizens)
Marissa township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Marissa township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2158
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 318
- South: 186
- West: 44
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,200
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: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 937
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 48
- 5 to 9: 42
- Mobile homes: 184
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,900
Housing units in Marissa township with a mortgage: 310 (11 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 396
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Marissa township:
- German (37.4%)
- United States or American (16.2%)
- Irish (10.7%)
- English (9.9%)
- Italian (4.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.7%)
- Polish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (37%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
- France (15%)
- Canada (15%)
- Mexico (11%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 957 (83%)
- Carpooled: 110 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 45 (4%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 27 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (3%)
99.0% of residents of Marissa township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (30% speak English very well, 70% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,756- In family households: 2,413 (636 male householders, 147 female householders)
622 spouses, 897 children (776 natural, 36 adopted, 85 stepchildren), 42 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 13 other relatives, 36 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 343 (134 male householders (119 living alone)), 181 female householders (170 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 361 2-persons, 181 3-persons, 138 4-persons, 55 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 289 1-person, 21 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
416 married couples with children.
180 single-parent households (53 men, 127 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 1.6% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 2.7% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
Here: | 11.4% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |