Big Rock township, Pulaski County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (36% naturalized citizens)
| Big Rock township: | 3.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
51% of Big Rock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 144054
- Northeast: 4465
- Midwest: 16377
- South: 28516
- West: 7625
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Big Rock township, Arkansas:
- 1,224 people in nursing homes
- 1,017 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 986 people in state prisons
- 652 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 480 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 457 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 335 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 251 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 108 people in institutions for the deaf
- 93 people in other group homes
- 89 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 50 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 50 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 46 people in institutions for the blind
- 45 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 41 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 39 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 33 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 3 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 60,728
- One, attached: 1,818
- Two: 2,831
- 3 or 4: 4,566
- 5 to 9: 5,660
- 10 to 19: 5,524
- 20 to 49: 3,210
- 50 or more: 5,878
- Mobile homes: 5,503
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 100
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,300
Housing units in Big Rock township with a mortgage: 32,012 (2,489 second mortgage, 2,176 home equity loan, 77 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 13,632
- Construction (9%)
- Health care (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Computer specialists (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Rock township:
- United States or American (11.0%)
- English (8.5%)
- German (7.9%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
- African (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (25%)
- India (8%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Nigeria (4%)
- Vietnam (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 80,740 (81%)
- Carpooled: 12,606 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,374 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 22 (0%)
- Railroad: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 272 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 95 (0%)
- Bicycle: 143 (0%)
- Walked: 1,486 (1%)
- Other means: 508 (1%)
- Worked at home: 2,210 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Big Rock township, Arkansas:
- 1,224 people in nursing homes
- 1,017 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 986 people in state prisons
- 652 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 480 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 457 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 335 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 251 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 108 people in institutions for the deaf
- 93 people in other group homes
- 89 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 50 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 50 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 46 people in institutions for the blind
- 45 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 41 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 39 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 33 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 3 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
94.2% of residents of Big Rock township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (65% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 203,422- In family households: 164,816 (37,404 male householders, 16,892 female householders)
38,662 spouses, 57,006 children (52,100 natural, 1,457 adopted, 3,449 stepchildren), 4,857 grandchildren, 2,230 brothers or sisters, 1,373 parents, 3,034 other relatives, 3,358 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 38,606 (14,606 male householders (11,923 living alone)), 18,523 female householders (16,541 living alone)), 5,477 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6,002 (3,949 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 24,235 2-persons, 13,171 3-persons, 10,043 4-persons, 4,344 5-persons, 1,744 6-persons, 759 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 28,464 1-person, 4,147 2-persons, 390 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 27 6-persons,
27,752 married couples with children.
16,806 single-parent households (2,360 men, 14,446 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5,007
| Here: | 21.9% |
| Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2,453
| Here: | 20.4% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,594
| Here: | 16.0% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |