Mount Vernon township, Benton County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (48% naturalized citizens)
Mount Vernon township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 2.8% |
64% of Mount Vernon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1483
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 135
- South: 29
- West: 43
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
31 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 639
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 35
- 10 to 19: 5
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Mount Vernon township with a mortgage: 270 (24 second mortgage, 24 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 194
- Department and other general merchandise stores (15%)
- Construction (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (24%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Food (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Vernon township:
- German (43.0%)
- Norwegian (19.2%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- English (6.3%)
- United States or American (4.1%)
- Czech (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- France (41%)
- Laos (15%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Mexico (11%)
- Hungary (7%)
- Australia (7%)
- Canada (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 645 (79%)
- Carpooled: 106 (13%)
- Bicycle: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 30 (4%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 25 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (1%)
31 people in nursing homes
96.5% of residents of Mount Vernon township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,714- In family households: 1,449 (418 male householders, 66 female householders)
424 spouses, 508 children (461 natural, 20 adopted, 27 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 4 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 265 (84 male householders (65 living alone)), 148 female householders (139 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 32 (31 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 229 2-persons, 89 3-persons, 97 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 204 1-person, 22 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
1,018 married couples with children.
196 single-parent households (66 men, 130 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
Here: | 1.2% |
Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 3.6% |
Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
Here: | 7.4% |
Arkansas: | 14.7% |