Missouri State Census Data Center: Basic Demographic Trend Report United States Cities AREA: East St. Louis city GEOCODE:17-1660 IL ------1980------ ------1990------ ----CHANGE---- CHG VARIABLE VALUE PCT VALUE PCT AMOUNT PCT IN % ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- T1. TOTAL PERSONS....... 55,200 100.0% 40,944 100.0% -14,256 -25.8 LIVING IN FAMILIES.... 50,035 90.6% 36,726 89.7% -13,309 -26.6 -0.9 IN GROUP QUARTERS..... 125 0.2% 228 0.6% 103 82.4 0.3 IN RURAL AREAS........ 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0 T2. RACE / HISPANIC WHITE................. 2,229 4.0% 566 1.4% -1,663 -74.6 -2.7 AFRICAN-AMERICAN...... 52,782 95.6% 40,339 98.5% -12,443 -23.6 2.9 ASIAN & PAC. ISLANDER. 33 0.1% 0 0.0% -33-100.0 -0.1 AM. INDIAN, ESK. ALEUT 18 0.0% 10 0.0% -8 -44.4 -0.0 HISPANIC (ANY RACE)... 640 1.2% 214 0.5% -426 -66.6 -0.6 T3. PERSONS BY AGE UNDER 5............... 5,640 10.2% 3,835 9.4% -1,805 -32.0 -0.9 5-17.................. 17,062 30.9% 10,308 25.2% -6,754 -39.6 -5.7 18-24.................. 6,994 12.7% 4,795 11.7% -2,199 -31.4 -1.0 25-44.................. 12,046 21.8% 10,663 26.0% -1,383 -11.5 4.2 45-64.................. 8,581 15.5% 6,873 16.8% -1,708 -19.9 1.2 65 AND OVER............ 4,877 8.8% 4,470 10.9% -407 -8.3 2.1 UNDER 18 (0-17)........ 22,702 41.1% 14,143 34.5% -8,559 -37.7 -6.6 40 AND OVER............ 15,795 28.6% 13,776 33.6% -2,019 -12.8 5.0 MEDIAN AGE............ 22.7 27.7 4.9 21.8 T4. INCOME & POVERTY MEDIAN HOUSEHLD INCOME $13,169 $12,627 -542 -4.1 MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME.. $16,144 $15,975 -169 -1.0 PER CAPITA INCOME..... $6,287 $6,421 134 2.1 PERSONS BELOW POVERTY. 23,776 43.3% 17,785 43.9% -5,991 -25.2 0.5 T5. HOUSEHOLDS.......... 16,816 100.0% 13,009 100.0% -3,807 -22.6 FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS..... 12,372 73.6% 9,458 72.7% -2,914 -23.6 -0.9 WITH 2+ WORKERS...... 3,958 23.5% 3,453 26.5% -505 -12.8 3.0 MARRIED COUPLES...... 5,645 33.6% 3,604 27.7% -2,041 -36.2 -5.9 WITH OWN CHILDREN... 3,208 19.1% 1,627 12.5% -1,581 -49.3 -6.6 FEMALE HEAD, NO HUSB. 6,051 36.0% 5,242 40.3% -809 -13.4 4.3 W. OWN CHILDREN..... 4,661 27.7% 2,942 22.6% -1,719 -36.9 -5.1 1-PERSON HOUSEHOLDS.... 4,067 24.2% 3,261 25.1% -806 -19.8 0.9 AVG. PERSONS PER HH.... 3.3 3.1 -0.1 -4.4 T6. EDUCATION, POP 25 +. 25,504 100.0% 22,006 100.0% -3,498 -13.7 HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA... 6,298 24.7% 5,417 24.6% -881 -14.0 -0.1 COLLEGE DEG. (4+ YRS). 1,712 6.7% 1,596 7.3% -116 -6.8 0.5 T7. CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE 16,692 100.0% 14,447 100.0% -2,245 -13.4 FEMALE................ 8,310 49.8% 7,842 54.3% -468 -5.6 4.5 EMPLOYED.............. 13,178 78.9% 10,888 75.4% -2,290 -17.4 -3.6 MANAGERIAL, PROF. OCC. 2,140 12.8% 1,815 12.6% -325 -15.2 -0.3 SERVICE OCCUPATIONS... 3,018 18.1% 3,069 21.2% 51 1.7 3.2 T8. HOUSING UNITS....... 18,895 100.0% 15,622 100.0% -3,273 -17.3 OCCUPIED.............. 16,730 88.5% 13,057 83.6% -3,673 -22.0 -5.0 OWNER OCCUPIED....... 8,269 49.4% 6,595 50.5% -1,674 -20.2 1.1 AVERAGE VALUE....... $30,540 $29,525 -1,015 -3.3 RENTER OCCUPIED...... 8,461 50.6% 6,462 49.5% -1,999 -23.6 -1.1 MEDIAN CONTRACT RENT $293 $320 27 9.1 SINGLE-FAMILY......... 12,496 66.1% 10,393 66.5% -2,103 -16.8 0.4 MOBILE HOMES.......... 125 0.7% 49 0.3% -76 -60.8 -0.3 MEDIAN YEAR BUILT..... 1947.9 1954.0 6.1 0.3 NOTES: 1. Income figures for "1980" are actually for 1979 and have been converted to 1989 dollars using CPI inflation factor of 1.708. 2. Average value of housing units and median contract rent for 1980 have been converted to 1990 dollars using CPI inflation factor of 1.586 Source: 1980 and 1990 summary tape files 3, U.S. Bureau of the Census Programming and design by the Urban Information Center, U. of Mo. St. Louis