Thompson township, Pike County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (64% naturalized citizens)
Thompson township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 2.8% |
67% of Thompson 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, 29% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 620
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 615
- South: 14
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $51,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
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
55 people in nursing homes
12 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 437
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 14
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 7
- Mobile homes: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Thompson township with a mortgage: 144 (18 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 159
- Construction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (14%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thompson township:
- Dutch (48.6%)
- German (17.8%)
- Norwegian (12.8%)
- Danish (4.7%)
- Irish (4.1%)
- United States or American (3.3%)
- Swedish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (64%)
- Other Eastern Africa (36%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 430 (74%)
- Carpooled: 67 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (1%)
- Bicycle: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 49 (8%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 28 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
55 people in nursing homes
12 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
95.6% of residents of Thompson township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,256- In family households: 1,136 (282 male householders, 47 female householders)
327 spouses, 458 children (428 natural, 4 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 120 (51 male householders (48 living alone)), 66 female householders (66 living alone)), 3 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 45 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 149 2-persons, 48 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 114 1-person, 3 2-persons,
408 married couples with children.
133 single-parent households (21 men, 112 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 49
Here: | 28.2% |
Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 29
Here: | 31.2% |
Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
Here: | 66.7% |
Arkansas: | 14.7% |