Willis township, Poinsett County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 185 (16% naturalized citizens)
| Willis township: | 185.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
51% of Willis township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 41% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 113022
- Northeast: 14466
- Midwest: 8542
- South: 29119
- West: 3762
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $90,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
88 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 50,475
- One, attached: 3,812
- Two: 1,983
- 3 or 4: 5,170
- 5 to 9: 7,053
- 10 to 19: 7,322
- 20 to 49: 2,496
- 50 or more: 2,888
- Mobile homes: 1,441
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,100
Housing units in Willis township with a mortgage: 26,661 (3,120 second mortgage, 4,721 home equity loan, 136 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 12,100
- Machinery (11%)
- Construction (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Willis township:
- English (9.4%)
- United States or American (9.4%)
- German (8.3%)
- Irish (4.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- Italian (2.0%)
- Scottish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (59%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Canada (3%)
- Guatemala (3%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
- India (2%)
- United Kingdom (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 64,934 (76%)
- Carpooled: 12,605 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,818 (2%)
- Subway or elevated: 33 (0%)
- Railroad: 19 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 12 (0%)
- Taxi: 263 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 71 (0%)
- Bicycle: 82 (0%)
- Walked: 2,423 (3%)
- Other means: 715 (1%)
- Worked at home: 2,028 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (44%)
- Utility gas (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
88 people in nursing homes
88.7% of residents of Willis township speak English at home.
8.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (31% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 21% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (81% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 176,340- In family households: 141,270 (30,335 male householders, 16,309 female householders)
31,598 spouses, 48,215 children (44,856 natural, 1,192 adopted, 2,167 stepchildren), 3,991 grandchildren, 2,421 brothers or sisters, 1,309 parents, 3,411 other relatives, 3,681 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 35,070 (11,974 male householders (9,540 living alone)), 17,722 female householders (16,002 living alone)), 5,374 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9,140 (3,187 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 21,603 2-persons, 11,228 3-persons, 8,083 4-persons, 3,514 5-persons, 1,266 6-persons, 950 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 25,542 1-person, 3,498 2-persons, 366 3-persons, 185 4-persons, 55 5-persons, 35 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
1,350 married couples with children.
556 single-parent households (91 men, 465 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,063
| Here: | 10.5% |
| Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 724
| Here: | 8.4% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5,062
| Here: | 43.4% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |