Jackson township, Starke County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 23 (81% naturalized citizens)
Jackson township: | 23.2% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Jackson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1664
- Northeast: 325
- Midwest: 63
- South: 95
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 749
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 39
- 3 or 4: 7
- 5 to 9: 2
Housing units in Jackson township with a mortgage: 414 (37 second mortgage, 73 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 144
- Transportation equipment (21%)
- Construction (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jackson township:
- German (17.0%)
- Irish (16.6%)
- Italian (15.7%)
- English (9.4%)
- Polish (7.2%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
- Dutch (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (14%)
- Germany (11%)
- Philippines (9%)
- Romania (7%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (6%)
- Jamaica (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 952 (80%)
- Carpooled: 126 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 6 (1%)
- Railroad: 11 (1%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 65 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Solar energy (1%)
93.8% of residents of Jackson township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English not well).
3.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (42% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,271- In family households: 2,141 (553 male householders, 100 female householders)
571 spouses, 799 children (749 natural, 11 adopted, 39 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 40 other relatives, 36 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 130 (55 male householders (42 living alone)), 43 female householders (34 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 28 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 256 2-persons, 134 3-persons, 133 4-persons, 83 5-persons, 31 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 76 1-person, 18 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
110 married couples with children.
15 single-parent households (10 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
Here: | 2.6% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
Here: | 16.5% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
Here: | 9.7% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |