Petit Jean township, Perry County, Arkansas (AR) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Petit Jean township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 2.8% |
71% of Petit Jean township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 33% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Arkansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 299
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 26
- South: 51
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 146
- Mobile homes: 32
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,300
Housing units in Petit Jean township with a mortgage: 40 (5 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 48
- Construction (22%)
- Paper (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Secondary school teachers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Communications equipment operators (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Petit Jean township:
- United States or American (25.0%)
- German (22.6%)
- English (16.1%)
- Irish (12.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.0%)
- European (3.2%)
- Dutch (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (50%)
- Japan (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 161 (75%)
- Carpooled: 41 (19%)
- Bicycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 4 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (2%)
- Worked at home: 4 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Wood (21%)
98.0% of residents of Petit Jean township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 413- In family households: 360 (121 male householders, 20 female householders)
105 spouses, 104 children (98 natural, 0 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 3 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 53 (33 male householders (31 living alone)), 17 female householders (15 living alone)), 3 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 70 2-persons, 34 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 10 5-persons, 2 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 46 1-person, 4 2-persons,
79 married couples with children.
16 single-parent households (1 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
Here: | 6.1% |
Arkansas: | 7.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Arkansas: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
Here: | 6.7% |
Arkansas: | 14.7% |