Granite City township, Madison County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (48% naturalized citizens)
| Granite City township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Granite City township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% 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: 21115
- Northeast: 468
- Midwest: 6535
- South: 2502
- West: 496
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $34,300
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: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Granite City township, Illinois:
- 209 people in nursing homes
- 55 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 21 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 9 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,386
- One, attached: 216
- Two: 747
- 3 or 4: 819
- 5 to 9: 708
- 10 to 19: 429
- 20 to 49: 235
- 50 or more: 172
- Mobile homes: 411
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,500
Housing units in Granite City township with a mortgage: 4,956 (459 second mortgage, 470 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,464
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Granite City township:
- German (20.8%)
- United States or American (14.7%)
- Irish (14.4%)
- English (9.2%)
- Italian (4.3%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (30%)
- Germany (15%)
- Canada (10%)
- El Salvador (6%)
- Panama (6%)
- Korea (4%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 11,244 (81%)
- Carpooled: 1,750 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 248 (2%)
- Subway or elevated: 19 (0%)
- Taxi: 19 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 18 (0%)
- Bicycle: 32 (0%)
- Walked: 262 (2%)
- Other means: 96 (1%)
- Worked at home: 172 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Granite City township, Illinois:
- 209 people in nursing homes
- 55 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 21 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 9 people in religious group quarters
96.6% of residents of Granite City township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 31,339- In family households: 26,233 (6,241 male householders, 2,239 female householders)
5,992 spouses, 9,606 children (8,592 natural, 173 adopted, 841 stepchildren), 645 grandchildren, 182 brothers or sisters, 166 parents, 508 other relatives, 654 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,106 (1,824 male householders (1,461 living alone)), 2,558 female householders (2,359 living alone)), 724 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 293 (208 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,688 2-persons, 2,058 3-persons, 1,677 4-persons, 702 5-persons, 250 6-persons, 105 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,820 1-person, 451 2-persons, 94 3-persons, 11 5-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
4,637 married couples with children.
2,251 single-parent households (514 men, 1,737 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 273
| Here: | 7.2% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 77
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 202
| Here: | 16.1% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |