Centreville township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (49% naturalized citizens)
| Centreville township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
59% of Centreville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 16753
- Northeast: 191
- Midwest: 6907
- South: 4187
- West: 300
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $29,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.1%
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 Centreville township, Illinois:
- 211 people in nursing homes
- 51 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 2 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,596
- One, attached: 149
- Two: 289
- 3 or 4: 474
- 5 to 9: 362
- 10 to 19: 17
- 20 to 49: 7
- 50 or more: 34
- Mobile homes: 1,093
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,900
Housing units in Centreville township with a mortgage: 3,249 (299 second mortgage, 331 home equity loan, 15 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,260
- Construction (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Centreville township:
- German (10.7%)
- United States or American (6.6%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- English (3.6%)
- African (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Italian (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (36%)
- Canada (12%)
- Korea (10%)
- Other Central America (9%)
- Iran (9%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Panama (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,575 (76%)
- Carpooled: 1,303 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 407 (4%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 5 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 81 (1%)
- Railroad: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 18 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 146 (1%)
- Other means: 103 (1%)
- Worked at home: 256 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Centreville township, Illinois:
- 211 people in nursing homes
- 51 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 2 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.0% of residents of Centreville township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (39% speak English very well, 61% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (37% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 51% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 28,400- In family households: 25,330 (4,152 male householders, 3,299 female householders)
3,921 spouses, 10,702 children (9,887 natural, 267 adopted, 548 stepchildren), 1,275 grandchildren, 470 brothers or sisters, 187 parents, 452 other relatives, 872 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,070 (1,121 male householders (903 living alone)), 1,457 female householders (1,321 living alone)), 492 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 264 (212 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,438 2-persons, 1,882 3-persons, 1,533 4-persons, 970 5-persons, 422 6-persons, 206 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,224 1-person, 288 2-persons, 33 3-persons, 31 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
3,429 married couples with children.
4,834 single-parent households (613 men, 4,221 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 333
| Here: | 7.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 79
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 141
| Here: | 16.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |