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.

Unlike some towns , Roland isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Roland are a mix of both white- and blue-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 small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Roland, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.5% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

In terms of college education, Roland is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 25.85% of adults in Roland have a college degree.

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.