Lonoke County, Arkansas
The Lonoke County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Lonoke. The county is one of the Dry counties, which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited. The Lonoke County is part of the metropolitan Little Rock.
Geography
The County is located east of the geographic center of Arkansas, and has an area of 2078 square kilometers, of which 94 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered clockwise to the following counties:
History
2000 2010
The Lonoke County was formed on April 16, 1873 from the Prairie County and Pulaski County. The County is the only one of Arkansas, whose district capital has the same name as the County itself is named after a surveyor of a railroad company, which used a massive, old red oak as a reference point for his survey.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2000 lived in Lonoke County 52 828 people in 19,262 households and 15,024 families. The population density was 27 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made up of 91.03 percent White, 6.44 percent African American, 0.49 percent Native American, 0.42 percent Asian, 0.03 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 0.51 percent from other races groups. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.08 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 19,262 households out of which 40.3 per cent of children or young people under the age of 18 who lived with them. 63.3 percent were married couples living together, 10.6 percent were single mothers, 22.0 percent were non-families. 19.0 percent of all households were single-person households and 7.6 percent had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size is 3.09 people.
28.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 8.0 percent between 18 to 24, 30.9 percent between 25 and 44, 21.9 percent between 45 and 64 and 10.4 percent were 65 years or older. The average age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 96.8 males to every 100 females age 18 and over, there were an average of 93.5 males.
The median income for a household was $ 40,314, and the median income for a family $ 46,173. Males have a median income of $ 32,451, women $ 22,897. The per capita income was $ 17,397. 8.1 percent of families and 10.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Lonoke County
- Allport
- Austin
- Blakemore
- Brummitt
- Butlerville
- Cabot
- Carlisle
- Cobbs
- Coy
- England
- Furlow
- Geridge
- Hamilton
- Hamiter
- Holland
- Humnoke
- Keo
- Kerr
- Lonoke
- McCreanor
- Meto
- Mountain Springs
- Oak Grove
- Old Austin
- Parnell
- Pettus
- Ryan
- Scott
- Seaton
- Sisemore
- Sylvania
- Toltec
- Tomberlin
- Union Valley
- Ward
- Wattensaw
- Willow Belle
Townships
- Butler Township
- Carlisle Township
- Caroline Township
- Cleveland Township
- Crooked Creek Township
- Dortch Township
- Eagle Township
- Fletcher Township
- Furlow Township
- Goodrum Township
- Gray Township
- Gum Woods Township
- Hamilton Township
- Indian Bayou Township
- Isbell Township
- Lafayette Township
- Lonoke Township
- Magness Township
- Oak Grove Township
- Pettus Township
- Prairie Township
- Pulaski Township
- Richwoods Township
- Scott Township
- Totten Township
- Walls Township
- Ward Township
- Williams Township
- York Township