Walker township, Franklin County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 57 (8% naturalized citizens)
| Walker township: | 57.5% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
64% of Walker township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1715
- Northeast: 90
- Midwest: 68
- South: 192
- West: 76
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 516
- Two: 17
- 10 to 19: 9
- Mobile homes: 351
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,500
Housing units in Walker township with a mortgage: 197 (10 second mortgage, 78 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 115
- Food (23%)
- Construction (15%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (15%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (8%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Health care (26%)
- Apparel (17%)
- Food and beverage stores (13%)
- Social assistance (13%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Private households (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (16%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Computer specialists (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Religious workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Registered nurses (13%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (13%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Walker township:
- United States or American (27.3%)
- German (19.7%)
- English (7.2%)
- Irish (4.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.2%)
- Russian (2.4%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (51%)
- El Salvador (40%)
- Honduras (5%)
- Dominican Republic (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 795 (76%)
- Carpooled: 179 (17%)
- Bicycle: 9 (1%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (50%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Wood (6%)
- No fuel used (1%)
90.8% of residents of Walker township speak English at home.
8.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 22% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,303- In family households: 2,053 (545 male householders, 91 female householders)
512 spouses, 768 children (661 natural, 19 adopted, 88 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 47 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 250 (82 male householders (62 living alone)), 114 female householders (93 living alone)), 54 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 259 2-persons, 142 3-persons, 99 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 81 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 155 1-person, 32 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
47 married couples with children.
11 single-parent households (3 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 68
| Here: | 21.3% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |