Jackson township, Owen County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Jackson township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
57% of Jackson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 13% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1406
- Northeast: 62
- Midwest: 132
- South: 212
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $57,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 570
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 482
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 29
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Jackson township with a mortgage: 261 (28 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 68
- Construction (24%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (18%)
- Health care (17%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jackson township:
- United States or American (35.1%)
- German (21.4%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- English (5.5%)
- Dutch (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
- Lithuanian (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 620 (73%)
- Carpooled: 216 (25%)
- Other means: 19 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Wood (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.7% of residents of Jackson township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,876- In family households: 1,644 (372 male householders, 138 female householders)
411 spouses, 553 children (465 natural, 16 adopted, 72 stepchildren), 58 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 23 other relatives, 73 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 232 (102 male householders (78 living alone)), 95 female householders (95 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 220 2-persons, 107 3-persons, 81 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 173 1-person, 17 2-persons, 7 4-persons,
334 married couples with children.
124 single-parent households (37 men, 87 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
Here: | 6.1% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
Here: | 9.3% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
Here: | 32.5% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |