Sugar Loaf township, St. Clair County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Sugar Loaf township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
60% of Sugar Loaf township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 37% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3893
- Northeast: 120
- Midwest: 2368
- South: 528
- West: 164
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $53,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.7%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,105
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 96
- 3 or 4: 107
- 5 to 9: 78
- 10 to 19: 7
- Mobile homes: 504
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Sugar Loaf township with a mortgage: 1,048 (126 second mortgage, 178 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 531
- Construction (15%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sugar Loaf township:
- German (31.2%)
- United States or American (19.6%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- English (9.1%)
- French (except Basque) (6.3%)
- Italian (4.3%)
- Polish (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Australia (31%)
- Germany (27%)
- Italy (22%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (16%)
- Lebanon (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,067 (85%)
- Carpooled: 432 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (0%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 18 (0%)
- Worked at home: 87 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
96.8% of residents of Sugar Loaf township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,170- In family households: 6,147 (1,547 male householders, 346 female householders)
1,574 spouses, 2,208 children (1,966 natural, 40 adopted, 202 stepchildren), 145 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 47 parents, 33 other relatives, 239 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,023 (351 male householders (280 living alone)), 470 female householders (391 living alone)), 202 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 723 2-persons, 470 3-persons, 440 4-persons, 175 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 47 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 671 1-person, 115 2-persons, 26 3-persons, 9 4-persons,
1,219 married couples with children.
426 single-parent households (131 men, 295 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 163
| Here: | 17.4% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 45
| Here: | 16.5% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |