Jackson township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Jackson township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Jackson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 553
- Northeast: 37
- Midwest: 2
- South: 15
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $206,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 292
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 42
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Jackson township with a mortgage: 72 (10 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 39
- Construction (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Private households (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jackson township:
- German (41.5%)
- United States or American (20.0%)
- Italian (5.9%)
- Irish (4.6%)
- English (4.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
- Welsh (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 240 (86%)
- Carpooled: 27 (10%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 7 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (64%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (9%)
- Coal or coke (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
98.2% of residents of Jackson township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English well, 67% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 609- In family households: 551 (173 male householders, 25 female householders)
163 spouses, 164 children (145 natural, 2 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 8 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 58 (15 male householders (12 living alone)), 37 female householders (34 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 103 2-persons, 40 3-persons, 39 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 46 1-person, 6 2-persons,
104 married couples with children.
12 single-parent households (8 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
Here: | 14.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |