Jackson township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (13% naturalized citizens)
| Jackson township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Jackson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 853
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 59
- South: 43
- West: 16
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
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
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 328
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 11
- Mobile homes: 29
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,500
Housing units in Jackson township with a mortgage: 110 (13 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 68
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (12%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Health care (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (12%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jackson township:
- German (50.6%)
- United States or American (24.1%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- English (3.2%)
- European (1.7%)
- French (except Basque) (1.6%)
- French Canadian (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (74%)
- Germany (13%)
- Taiwan (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 365 (72%)
- Carpooled: 62 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 36 (7%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 33 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Wood (14%)
- Other fuel (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.3% of residents of Jackson township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,002- In family households: 929 (255 male householders, 17 female householders)
263 spouses, 364 children (330 natural, 5 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 0 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 73 (21 male householders (19 living alone)), 50 female householders (50 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 119 2-persons, 40 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 27 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 69 1-person, 2 2-persons,
298 married couples with children.
38 single-parent households (14 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 11.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 48.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |