Prairie Du Long township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie Du Long township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Prairie Du Long 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, 49% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1045
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 161
- South: 90
- West: 20
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 469
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $63,100
Housing units in Prairie Du Long township with a mortgage: 255 (0 second mortgage, 59 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 74
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (13%)
- Construction (13%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Computer specialists (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (15%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie Du Long township:
- German (59.6%)
- United States or American (11.7%)
- Irish (5.4%)
- Polish (5.4%)
- English (3.7%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 613 (89%)
- Carpooled: 14 (2%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 11 (2%)
- Worked at home: 54 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (51%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (3%)
98.6% of residents of Prairie Du Long township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,345- In family households: 1,265 (371 male householders, 45 female householders)
375 spouses, 451 children (422 natural, 9 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 80 (40 male householders (37 living alone)), 34 female householders (34 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 185 2-persons, 75 3-persons, 116 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 15 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 71 1-person, 3 3-persons,
319 married couples with children.
26 single-parent households (11 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 55
| Here: | 31.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 33
| Here: | 28.9% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 26.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |