St. Clair township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (60% naturalized citizens)
| St. Clair township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
50% of St. Clair township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 29% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 18559
- Northeast: 1096
- Midwest: 5824
- South: 3285
- West: 1269
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
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 St. Clair township, Illinois:
- 318 people in nursing homes
- 69 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 40 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,909
- One, attached: 859
- Two: 604
- 3 or 4: 481
- 5 to 9: 887
- 10 to 19: 681
- 20 to 49: 85
- 50 or more: 32
- Mobile homes: 1,402
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,100
Housing units in St. Clair township with a mortgage: 5,241 (452 second mortgage, 519 home equity loan, 29 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,821
- Construction (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in St. Clair township:
- German (31.9%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- English (7.7%)
- United States or American (7.1%)
- Polish (3.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (16%)
- Philippines (16%)
- Germany (9%)
- Korea (7%)
- Mexico (6%)
- Thailand (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,314 (85%)
- Carpooled: 1,672 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 170 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 56 (0%)
- Railroad: 6 (0%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 20 (0%)
- Walked: 89 (1%)
- Other means: 33 (0%)
- Worked at home: 333 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in St. Clair township, Illinois:
- 318 people in nursing homes
- 69 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 40 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.3% of residents of St. Clair township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (47% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 30,866- In family households: 26,279 (6,636 male householders, 1,904 female householders)
6,657 spouses, 9,641 children (8,827 natural, 208 adopted, 606 stepchildren), 289 grandchildren, 150 brothers or sisters, 200 parents, 257 other relatives, 545 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,587 (1,777 male householders (1,338 living alone)), 2,042 female householders (1,806 living alone)), 768 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 432 (330 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,556 2-persons, 2,201 3-persons, 1,773 4-persons, 765 5-persons, 203 6-persons, 42 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,144 1-person, 598 2-persons, 60 3-persons, 17 4-persons,
5,951 married couples with children.
1,800 single-parent households (322 men, 1,478 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 678
| Here: | 17.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 298
| Here: | 16.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 240
| Here: | 12.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |