Jackson township, DeKalb County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (85% naturalized citizens)
| Jackson township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
73% of Jackson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 93% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2031
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 263
- South: 90
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 812
- One, attached: 5
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 8
- Mobile homes: 103
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,000
Housing units in Jackson township with a mortgage: 327 (26 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 136
- Metal and metal products (21%)
- Construction (10%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jackson township:
- German (35.7%)
- United States or American (21.2%)
- English (12.3%)
- Irish (4.7%)
- French (except Basque) (3.7%)
- Scottish (3.7%)
- Italian (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (23%)
- Germany (20%)
- Thailand (18%)
- Vietnam (15%)
- Ecuador (15%)
- Taiwan (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,227 (90%)
- Carpooled: 86 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 19 (1%)
- Walked: 19 (1%)
- Worked at home: 13 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
95.6% of residents of Jackson township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,475- In family households: 2,256 (664 male householders, 27 female householders)
662 spouses, 847 children (797 natural, 7 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 13 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 219 (140 male householders (127 living alone)), 53 female householders (46 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 230 2-persons, 204 3-persons, 162 4-persons, 89 5-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 173 1-person, 16 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
644 married couples with children.
54 single-parent households (15 men, 39 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 49
| Here: | 15.3% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 13.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |