Florissant township, St. Louis County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (51% naturalized citizens)
| Florissant township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
63% of Florissant 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, 57% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 26245
- Northeast: 482
- Midwest: 3927
- South: 2400
- West: 863
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,700
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: 0.1% of all households
390 people in nursing homes
28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,998
- One, attached: 408
- Two: 80
- 3 or 4: 307
- 5 to 9: 1,060
- 10 to 19: 930
- 20 to 49: 299
- 50 or more: 225
- Mobile homes: 9
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,000
Housing units in Florissant township with a mortgage: 6,557 (727 second mortgage, 658 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,494
- Construction (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Florissant township:
- German (29.7%)
- Irish (15.1%)
- English (6.0%)
- United States or American (5.9%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Nigeria (12%)
- Germany (8%)
- Taiwan (7%)
- Other Eastern Africa (7%)
- Canada (7%)
- Cuba (5%)
- Yugoslavia (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 14,506 (87%)
- Carpooled: 1,380 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 124 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 39 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 71 (0%)
- Railroad: 19 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 19 (0%)
- Walked: 151 (1%)
- Other means: 29 (0%)
- Worked at home: 365 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
390 people in nursing homes
28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.4% of residents of Florissant township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 34,213- In family households: 28,980 (6,771 male householders, 2,592 female householders)
7,071 spouses, 10,683 children (9,884 natural, 272 adopted, 527 stepchildren), 639 grandchildren, 182 brothers or sisters, 186 parents, 270 other relatives, 586 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,233 (1,729 male householders (1,424 living alone)), 2,800 female householders (2,489 living alone)), 704 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 416 (306 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,071 2-persons, 2,187 3-persons, 1,889 4-persons, 829 5-persons, 273 6-persons, 114 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,913 1-person, 545 2-persons, 45 3-persons, 26 5-persons,
5,836 married couples with children.
2,128 single-parent households (429 men, 1,699 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,192
| Here: | 29.9% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 393
| Here: | 20.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 310
| Here: | 20.1% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |