Jackson township, Huntington County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Jackson township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Jackson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3058
- Northeast: 45
- Midwest: 446
- South: 155
- West: 87
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $90,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,207
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 32
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 22
- 20 to 49: 15
- Mobile homes: 229
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,400
Housing units in Jackson township with a mortgage: 614 (50 second mortgage, 84 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 248
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jackson township:
- German (44.8%)
- United States or American (14.4%)
- English (7.7%)
- Irish (7.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (31%)
- United Kingdom (28%)
- Poland (22%)
- Iraq (13%)
- Japan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,893 (88%)
- Carpooled: 162 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 47 (2%)
- Worked at home: 36 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.4% of residents of Jackson township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (96% speak English very well, 4% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,836- In family households: 3,407 (926 male householders, 141 female householders)
991 spouses, 1,246 children (1,118 natural, 30 adopted, 98 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 36 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 429 (149 male householders (130 living alone)), 215 female householders (191 living alone)), 65 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 14 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 429 2-persons, 242 3-persons, 247 4-persons, 100 5-persons, 43 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 321 1-person, 32 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 2 5-persons,
826 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (32 men, 105 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 92
| Here: | 20.7% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 25
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 43
| Here: | 39.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |