Carter township, Ashley County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Carter township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
59% of Carter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 756
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 75
- South: 44
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $21,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
65 people in nursing homes
23 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 314
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 67
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,900
Housing units in Carter township with a mortgage: 86 (10 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 85
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Construction (13%)
- Paper (11%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (13%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Carter township:
- Dutch (29.4%)
- German (18.2%)
- United States or American (11.7%)
- English (8.1%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- French (except Basque) (4.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 351 (75%)
- Carpooled: 89 (19%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 22 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (2%)
65 people in nursing homes
23 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
96.9% of residents of Carter township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 918- In family households: 828 (204 male householders, 67 female householders)
239 spouses, 287 children (251 natural, 2 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 3 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 90 (51 male householders (46 living alone)), 30 female householders (28 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 137 2-persons, 56 3-persons, 45 4-persons, 18 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 74 1-person, 7 2-persons,
746 married couples with children.
290 single-parent households (49 men, 241 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
| Here: | 30.3% |
| Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 53.3% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |