Big Fork township, Montgomery County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 11 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Big Fork township: | 11.2% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
68% of Big Fork township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1466
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 268
- South: 15
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $295,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 671
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 62
- 3 or 4: 51
- 5 to 9: 25
- 20 to 49: 10
- Mobile homes: 35
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Big Fork township with a mortgage: 217 (21 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 245
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Construction (12%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Fork township:
- German (55.3%)
- Norwegian (13.6%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- English (5.2%)
- United States or American (2.9%)
- Swiss (2.1%)
- Danish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (47%)
- Other Northern Europe (26%)
- Poland (16%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 626 (68%)
- Carpooled: 70 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 130 (14%)
- Other means: 14 (2%)
- Worked at home: 74 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.4% of residents of Big Fork township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (45% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 23% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,737- In family households: 1,444 (447 male householders, 69 female householders)
459 spouses, 409 children (378 natural, 20 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 25 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 293 (96 male householders (87 living alone)), 174 female householders (164 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 74 (56 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 287 2-persons, 112 3-persons, 81 4-persons, 27 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 251 1-person, 17 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
30 married couples with children.
5 single-parent households (5 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 5.8% |
| Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 36.0% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |