Prairie township, Searcy County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
60% of Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 324
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 182
- South: 18
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $20,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 203
- Two: 4
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 30
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 80 (19 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 58
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (16%)
- Wood products (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Food and beverage stores (11%)
- Health care (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Other direct selling establishments (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Woodworkers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (18%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- German (40.5%)
- English (21.7%)
- United States or American (14.1%)
- Irish (10.4%)
- Dutch (4.7%)
- Norwegian (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 176 (70%)
- Carpooled: 45 (18%)
- Walked: 14 (6%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (71%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Other fuel (3%)
98.8% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 552- In family households: 472 (130 male householders, 26 female householders)
139 spouses, 156 children (153 natural, 3 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 18 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 80 (38 male householders (32 living alone)), 34 female householders (34 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 73 2-persons, 34 3-persons, 38 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 66 1-person, 6 2-persons,
117 married couples with children.
20 single-parent households (9 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 60.0% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |