New Athens township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (33% naturalized citizens)
New Athens township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of New Athens township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2179
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 262
- South: 90
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $33,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
52 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 864
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 45
- 3 or 4: 24
- 5 to 9: 22
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 84
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in New Athens township with a mortgage: 430 (54 second mortgage, 88 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 231
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in New Athens township:
- German (50.1%)
- United States or American (14.3%)
- English (10.6%)
- Irish (8.8%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Welsh (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (67%)
- Yugoslavia (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,030 (83%)
- Carpooled: 101 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 26 (2%)
- Worked at home: 70 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
52 people in nursing homes
97.7% of residents of New Athens township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,574- In family households: 2,249 (596 male householders, 113 female householders)
575 spouses, 825 children (753 natural, 22 adopted, 50 stepchildren), 49 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 18 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 325 (121 male householders (98 living alone)), 158 female householders (136 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 53 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 284 2-persons, 183 3-persons, 128 4-persons, 82 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 234 1-person, 43 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
480 married couples with children.
119 single-parent households (41 men, 78 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 40
Here: | 13.9% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
Here: | 13.2% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |