Shaw township, Saline County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (10% naturalized citizens)
Shaw township: | 1.7% |
Whole state: | 2.8% |
60% of Shaw township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 829
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 25
- South: 184
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 251
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 181
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,900
Housing units in Shaw township with a mortgage: 89 (0 second mortgage, 1 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 58
- Construction (17%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Health care (29%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (12%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (8%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shaw township:
- United States or American (26.1%)
- German (18.1%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- English (8.7%)
- French Canadian (4.1%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 436 (74%)
- Carpooled: 130 (22%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (6%)
96.3% of residents of Shaw township speak English at home.
3.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (6% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 75% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (33% speak English well, 67% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,109- In family households: 1,031 (319 male householders, 21 female householders)
313 spouses, 304 children (259 natural, 7 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 16 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 78 (32 male householders (25 living alone)), 27 female householders (27 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 154 2-persons, 98 3-persons, 55 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 52 1-person, 6 2-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
274 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (7 men, 25 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): 2
Here: | 4.3% |
Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
Here: | 31.3% |
Arkansas: | 14.7% |