Fouke (Arkansas)

Miller County

05-24640

Fouke is a city in Miller County of the U.S. state of Arkansas. 2000, there were nearly 870 people on a city area of ​​2.7 square kilometers.

Fouke is part of the socio-economic region Ark- La -Tex, which includes parts of the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.

Demography

The 2000 census showed a population of 859 people in Fouke. This was split on 291 households and 220 families. On a square kilometer so were about 300 people. 95.5 % of the population were white, 2.5% Native American, 1.7% Hispanic or Latino, and 0.3 % blacks. 0.6 % of the population were from some other race, 1.2% had two or more ethnicities. For every 100 females were about 95 men. The mean age was 27 years, the per capita income was just over $ 11,000 a year.

By 2012, the population had risen to 873. With 31 years of the local average age was about eleven years below that of the state of Arkansas.

Traffic

In the southwest of the urban area Interstate 49 passes through the city, which leads to the northwest in the two - Texarkana cities and in the south by Doddridge. From north to south the starting running U.S. Route 71 on the Fouke to the cities of Shreveport or Alexandria in the south and Fort Smith is tied up in the north.