Emerson township, Columbia County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Emerson township: | 7.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
63% of Emerson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1709
- Northeast: 19
- Midwest: 121
- South: 43
- West: 51
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 795
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 35
- 3 or 4: 54
- 10 to 19: 23
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,300
Housing units in Emerson township with a mortgage: 260 (19 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 320
- Wood products (17%)
- Chemicals (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Emerson township:
- German (63.3%)
- United States or American (7.2%)
- Dutch (5.0%)
- Irish (4.0%)
- English (3.6%)
- Norwegian (2.4%)
- Romanian (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (68%)
- Romania (9%)
- El Salvador (9%)
- Germany (4%)
- Korea (4%)
- Netherlands (3%)
- Colombia (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 674 (73%)
- Carpooled: 109 (12%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 80 (9%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 59 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
89.3% of residents of Emerson township speak English at home.
8.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,995- In family households: 1,732 (501 male householders, 74 female householders)
508 spouses, 583 children (502 natural, 41 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 17 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 263 (79 male householders (79 living alone)), 166 female householders (152 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 106 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 290 2-persons, 85 3-persons, 124 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 231 1-person, 12 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
372 married couples with children.
93 single-parent households (21 men, 72 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 2.2% |
| 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: 4
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |