Jackson township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (61% naturalized citizens)
Jackson township: | 1.5% |
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, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1009
- Northeast: 28
- Midwest: 89
- South: 41
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $156,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 428
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 1
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 68
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Jackson township with a mortgage: 151 (18 second mortgage, 24 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 86
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (5%)
- Food (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jackson township:
- German (29.6%)
- English (14.6%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- Italian (7.7%)
- United States or American (6.3%)
- Dutch (5.0%)
- Scottish (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ireland (28%)
- France (22%)
- Korea (17%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Panama (11%)
- Canada (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 478 (84%)
- Carpooled: 40 (7%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (4%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 22 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (37%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (28%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
90.8% of residents of Jackson township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
8.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,193- In family households: 1,083 (291 male householders, 47 female householders)
298 spouses, 393 children (359 natural, 13 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 6 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 110 (50 male householders (44 living alone)), 45 female householders (33 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 142 2-persons, 72 3-persons, 90 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 77 1-person, 18 2-persons,
225 married couples with children.
43 single-parent households (10 men, 33 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
Here: | 11.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 8.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
Here: | 37.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |