Mount Pleasant township, Searcy County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (20% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Pleasant township: | 3.2% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
78% of Mount Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 16% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 393
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 82
- South: 89
- West: 60
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 262
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 48
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Mount Pleasant township with a mortgage: 26 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 26
- Construction (24%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Health care (33%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (19%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Pleasant township:
- United States or American (24.4%)
- English (16.8%)
- Irish (11.9%)
- German (9.9%)
- Norwegian (5.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (30%)
- Vietnam (20%)
- Germany (15%)
- Brazil (15%)
- Hungary (10%)
- Canada (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 130 (60%)
- Carpooled: 55 (25%)
- Worked at home: 31 (14%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Wood (48%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Solar energy (1%)
96.3% of residents of Mount Pleasant township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
3.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 653- In family households: 580 (159 male householders, 41 female householders)
167 spouses, 192 children (182 natural, 6 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 8 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 73 (19 male householders (12 living alone)), 42 female householders (42 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 93 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 30 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 2 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 54 1-person, 2 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
106 married couples with children.
36 single-parent households (12 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 14.3% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |