About Roland

Roland is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,723 people and just one neighborhood, Roland is the 132nd largest community in Arkansas.

Roland is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Roland is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Roland who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.66%), management occupations (10.81%), and sales jobs (8.90%).

Also of interest is that Roland has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One downside of living in Roland is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Roland, the average commute to work is 31.30 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Roland is a very car-oriented town. 99.5% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Roland is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Roland has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Roland does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Roland Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Roland citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 25.85% of adults in Roland have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Roland in 2000 was $24,743, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,972 for a family of four.

The people who call Roland home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Roland is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Roland include German, Irish, English, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Roland is English.