Promised Land township, Craighead County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 16 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Promised Land township: | 16.1% |
| Whole state: | 2.8% |
56% of Promised Land 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, 40% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2380
- Northeast: 216
- Midwest: 230
- South: 386
- West: 68
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $99,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,068
- One, attached: 18
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 376
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,300
Housing units in Promised Land township with a mortgage: 677 (84 second mortgage, 143 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 173
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Truck transportation (17%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers (11%)
- Construction (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (21%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (17%)
- Health care (17%)
- Food (13%)
- Truck transportation (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Leather and allied products (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (17%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (15%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (13%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (29%)
- Accountants and auditors (21%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (13%)
- Other financial specialists (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Promised Land township:
- United States or American (22.7%)
- German (19.4%)
- English (11.0%)
- Irish (7.4%)
- Italian (3.4%)
- European (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Greece (46%)
- Germany (31%)
- Japan (14%)
- Philippines (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,689 (87%)
- Carpooled: 180 (9%)
- Walked: 24 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 41 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Utility gas (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
95.0% of residents of Promised Land township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,336- In family households: 2,871 (832 male householders, 169 female householders)
890 spouses, 883 children (805 natural, 36 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 35 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 37 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 465 (208 male householders (178 living alone)), 185 female householders (154 living alone)), 72 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 449 2-persons, 320 3-persons, 146 4-persons, 77 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 332 1-person, 61 2-persons,
34 married couples with children.
9 single-parent households (4 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 10.8% |
| Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Arkansas: | 14.7% |