Mount Vernon township, Faulkner County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 30 (27% naturalized citizens)
Mount Vernon township: | 29.8% |
Whole state: | 2.8% |
56% of Mount Vernon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1051
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 120
- South: 56
- West: 41
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $11,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 443
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 86
- 5 to 9: 27
- 20 to 49: 43
- 50 or more: 17
Housing units in Mount Vernon township with a mortgage: 237 (27 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 119
- Construction (25%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Warehousing and storage (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (26%)
- Accommodation and food services (19%)
- Health care (14%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- U. S. Postal service (5%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (16%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Vernon township:
- German (29.3%)
- United States or American (14.6%)
- Norwegian (13.8%)
- English (5.9%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Swedish (2.4%)
- Irish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (96%)
- Other Northern Europe (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 531 (82%)
- Carpooled: 67 (10%)
- Walked: 26 (4%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 17 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
84.3% of residents of Mount Vernon township speak English at home.
13.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 24% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,310- In family households: 1,040 (303 male householders, 38 female householders)
308 spouses, 352 children (343 natural, 9 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 10 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 270 (95 male householders (82 living alone)), 154 female householders (151 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 99 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 157 2-persons, 70 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 233 1-person, 16 2-persons,
77 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (0 men, 14 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 29.4% |
Arkansas: | 14.7% |