Cushman township, Independence County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (27% naturalized citizens)
| Cushman township: | 12.6% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
60% of Cushman township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5104
- Northeast: 48
- Midwest: 837
- South: 129
- West: 81
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $165,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,060
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 42
- 3 or 4: 133
- 5 to 9: 135
- 10 to 19: 138
- 20 to 49: 73
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Cushman township with a mortgage: 1,120 (73 second mortgage, 123 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 552
- Construction (18%)
- Food (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Food (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (17%)
- Health care (13%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (18%)
- Waiters and waitresses (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Food processing workers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cushman township:
- German (54.2%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- United States or American (8.3%)
- English (4.8%)
- Norwegian (3.7%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (36%)
- Poland (27%)
- Germany (10%)
- Mexico (8%)
- Korea (6%)
- Cuba (6%)
- Other Western Europe (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,695 (84%)
- Carpooled: 224 (7%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 101 (3%)
- Other means: 32 (1%)
- Worked at home: 145 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
98.0% of residents of Cushman township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 55% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 48% speak English well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (47% speak English very well, 53% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,256- In family households: 5,388 (1,528 male householders, 214 female householders)
1,512 spouses, 2,023 children (1,850 natural, 89 adopted, 84 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 31 other relatives, 49 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 868 (239 male householders (194 living alone)), 539 female householders (496 living alone)), 90 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 78 (75 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 814 2-persons, 323 3-persons, 391 4-persons, 158 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 690 1-person, 88 2-persons,
186 married couples with children.
38 single-parent households (6 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 132
| Here: | 16.3% |
| Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 2.7% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 52
| Here: | 25.6% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |