Edwardsville township, Madison County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (44% naturalized citizens)
Edwardsville township: | 2.6% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
50% of Edwardsville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 20966
- Northeast: 818
- Midwest: 7182
- South: 2457
- West: 1152
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $105,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
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 Edwardsville township, Illinois:
- 2,197 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 474 people in nursing homes
- 267 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 49 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 9,508
- One, attached: 489
- Two: 405
- 3 or 4: 853
- 5 to 9: 582
- 10 to 19: 576
- 20 to 49: 97
- 50 or more: 88
- Mobile homes: 368
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,100
Housing units in Edwardsville township with a mortgage: 5,917 (501 second mortgage, 622 home equity loan, 14 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,203
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Edwardsville township:
- German (32.6%)
- English (10.5%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- United States or American (6.7%)
- Italian (4.7%)
- Polish (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (18%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Poland (6%)
- Germany (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
- Canada (4%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 14,910 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,412 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 263 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 16 (0%)
- Railroad: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 24 (0%)
- Walked: 727 (4%)
- Other means: 137 (1%)
- Worked at home: 522 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
People in group quarters in Edwardsville township, Illinois:
- 2,197 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 474 people in nursing homes
- 267 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 49 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in homes for the mentally ill
95.1% of residents of Edwardsville township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (82% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 30,779- In family households: 25,487 (6,597 male householders, 1,722 female householders)
7,028 spouses, 9,101 children (8,497 natural, 256 adopted, 348 stepchildren), 288 grandchildren, 134 brothers or sisters, 141 parents, 197 other relatives, 279 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,292 (1,749 male householders (1,250 living alone)), 2,303 female householders (1,812 living alone)), 1,240 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,980 (786 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,439 2-persons, 2,017 3-persons, 1,905 4-persons, 725 5-persons, 175 6-persons, 58 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,062 1-person, 813 2-persons, 155 3-persons, 15 4-persons, 7 5-persons,
5,877 married couples with children.
1,419 single-parent households (312 men, 1,107 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 599
Here: | 17.1% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 88
Here: | 5.1% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 343
Here: | 7.3% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |