Spanish Lake township, St. Louis County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (65% naturalized citizens)
| Spanish Lake township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
63% of Spanish Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 27178
- Northeast: 659
- Midwest: 4712
- South: 3896
- West: 1048
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $111,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
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 Spanish Lake township, Missouri:
- 359 people in nursing homes
- 95 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 11,666
- One, attached: 567
- Two: 47
- 3 or 4: 496
- 5 to 9: 749
- 10 to 19: 685
- 20 to 49: 163
- 50 or more: 313
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $137,500
Housing units in Spanish Lake township with a mortgage: 9,007 (942 second mortgage, 1,099 home equity loan, 35 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,348
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Construction (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spanish Lake township:
- German (22.6%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- English (5.1%)
- Italian (4.4%)
- United States or American (3.8%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- Polish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Nigeria (11%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Mexico (7%)
- Dominican Republic (6%)
- Korea (6%)
- Japan (5%)
- Panama (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 16,979 (87%)
- Carpooled: 1,638 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 170 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 67 (0%)
- Railroad: 20 (0%)
- Taxi: 12 (0%)
- Bicycle: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 99 (1%)
- Other means: 78 (0%)
- Worked at home: 552 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Spanish Lake township, Missouri:
- 359 people in nursing homes
- 95 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in homes for the mentally ill
94.9% of residents of Spanish Lake township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (65% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 38,337- In family households: 34,612 (8,428 male householders, 2,496 female householders)
8,669 spouses, 12,936 children (11,827 natural, 484 adopted, 625 stepchildren), 771 grandchildren, 259 brothers or sisters, 238 parents, 453 other relatives, 362 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,725 (1,323 male householders (1,122 living alone)), 1,976 female householders (1,831 living alone)), 426 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 466 (452 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,255 2-persons, 2,677 3-persons, 2,388 4-persons, 1,038 5-persons, 450 6-persons, 116 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,953 1-person, 291 2-persons, 46 3-persons, 9 4-persons,
7,441 married couples with children.
1,926 single-parent households (374 men, 1,552 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,358
| Here: | 27.2% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 525
| Here: | 19.4% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 443
| Here: | 22.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |