Stookey township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Stookey township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
69% of Stookey township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 81% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6559
- Northeast: 258
- Midwest: 1976
- South: 636
- West: 263
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $67,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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
77 people in nursing homes
7 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,290
- One, attached: 74
- Two: 53
- 3 or 4: 234
- 5 to 9: 94
- 10 to 19: 143
- 20 to 49: 48
- 50 or more: 213
- Mobile homes: 153
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,400
Housing units in Stookey township with a mortgage: 1,930 (188 second mortgage, 313 home equity loan, 10 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 991
- Construction (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Stookey township:
- German (34.5%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- English (9.2%)
- United States or American (8.5%)
- French (except Basque) (5.8%)
- Polish (3.5%)
- Italian (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (16%)
- Brazil (14%)
- United Kingdom (14%)
- Pakistan (12%)
- Poland (9%)
- Russia (8%)
- India (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,382 (86%)
- Carpooled: 509 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 16 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (0%)
- Other means: 49 (1%)
- Worked at home: 152 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
77 people in nursing homes
7 people in religious group quarters
95.3% of residents of Stookey township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (29% speak English very well, 71% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,925- In family households: 8,438 (2,251 male householders, 514 female householders)
2,336 spouses, 2,962 children (2,662 natural, 111 adopted, 189 stepchildren), 109 grandchildren, 32 brothers or sisters, 51 parents, 79 other relatives, 104 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,487 (537 male householders (428 living alone)), 749 female householders (679 living alone)), 201 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 82 (76 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,229 2-persons, 697 3-persons, 501 4-persons, 213 5-persons, 107 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,107 1-person, 159 2-persons, 12 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
1,720 married couples with children.
430 single-parent households (86 men, 344 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 289
| Here: | 25.9% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 97
| Here: | 16.3% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 50
| Here: | 9.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |