Ward township, Yell County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (80% naturalized citizens)
Ward township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 2.8% |
75% of Ward 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, 80% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 974
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 56
- South: 5
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
65 people in nursing homes
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 472
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 11
- 10 to 19: 4
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in Ward township with a mortgage: 138 (11 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 189
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Woodworkers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ward township:
- German (78.2%)
- Norwegian (4.7%)
- United States or American (3.9%)
- Irish (3.0%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
- English (2.5%)
- Danish (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (80%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 369 (74%)
- Carpooled: 32 (6%)
- Walked: 39 (8%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 57 (11%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (1%)
65 people in nursing homes
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
94.6% of residents of Ward township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (17% speak English very well, 83% speak English well).
4.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,060- In family households: 896 (283 male householders, 20 female householders)
283 spouses, 294 children (280 natural, 7 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 3 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 164 (50 male householders (50 living alone)), 108 female householders (101 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 171 2-persons, 42 3-persons, 53 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 151 1-person, 7 2-persons,
287 married couples with children.
155 single-parent households (28 men, 127 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
Here: | 10.6% |
Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 4.2% |
Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
Here: | 8.3% |
Arkansas: | 14.7% |