Silver Lake township, Desha County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Silver Lake township: | 3.7% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
53% of Silver Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 484
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 20
- South: 47
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 134
- Mobile homes: 116
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,000
Housing units in Silver Lake township with a mortgage: 58 (0 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 21
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (23%)
- Public administration (16%)
- Repair and maintenance (15%)
- Construction (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Paper (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (14%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (16%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (14%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (13%)
- Cashiers (12%)
- Health technologists and technicians (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Personal appearance workers (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Lake township:
- United States or American (42.3%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- African (2.0%)
- German (1.5%)
- European (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 221 (75%)
- Carpooled: 60 (20%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 8 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (51%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Utility gas (13%)
92.1% of residents of Silver Lake township speak English at home.
7.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (16% speak English very well, 67% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 605- In family households: 548 (144 male householders, 29 female householders)
127 spouses, 184 children (165 natural, 0 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 20 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 57 (16 male householders (16 living alone)), 33 female householders (27 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 64 2-persons, 12 3-persons, 76 4-persons, 10 5-persons, 11 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 43 1-person, 6 2-persons,
117 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (8 men, 14 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): 7
| Here: | 14.6% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |