Jackson township, Effingham County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
Jackson township: | 1.7% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
79% of Jackson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1088
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 60
- South: 36
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 331
- One, attached: 6
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 129
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,100
Housing units in Jackson township with a mortgage: 127 (21 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 49
- Printing and related support activities (12%)
- Construction (12%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (7%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (15%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Printing workers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jackson township:
- German (47.0%)
- United States or American (15.7%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- English (4.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Lithuanian (1.8%)
- European (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 501 (83%)
- Carpooled: 48 (8%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 49 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (64%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (9%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Other fuel (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
97.8% of residents of Jackson township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,235- In family households: 1,142 (321 male householders, 42 female householders)
329 spouses, 406 children (394 natural, 0 adopted, 12 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 93 (30 male householders (25 living alone)), 46 female householders (40 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 156 2-persons, 60 3-persons, 95 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 65 1-person, 6 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
268 married couples with children.
44 single-parent households (26 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 36
Here: | 23.1% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 10.4% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |