Norphlet township, Union County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (5% naturalized citizens)
Norphlet township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 2.8% |
69% of Norphlet township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 35% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1272
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 31
- South: 297
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 598
- One, attached: 1
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 150
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Norphlet township with a mortgage: 211 (30 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 157
- Construction (13%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Petroleum and coal products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Construction (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Norphlet township:
- United States or American (33.3%)
- Irish (16.2%)
- English (13.2%)
- German (6.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.3%)
- Scottish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (45%)
- United Kingdom (35%)
- Brazil (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 647 (86%)
- Carpooled: 78 (10%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 10 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (1%)
97.4% of residents of Norphlet township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (31% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,660- In family households: 1,479 (450 male householders, 68 female householders)
407 spouses, 490 children (409 natural, 28 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 11 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 181 (71 male householders (63 living alone)), 94 female householders (87 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 255 2-persons, 108 3-persons, 98 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 150 1-person, 15 2-persons,
334 married couples with children.
74 single-parent households (17 men, 57 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
Here: | 13.0% |
Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 6.3% |
Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 3.6% |
Arkansas: | 14.7% |