Jackson is a somewhat small town located in the state of Wyoming. With a population of 8,800 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Jackson is the 11th largest community in Wyoming.

Jackson is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Jackson is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Jackson who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.50%), sales jobs (11.74%), and food service (10.55%).

One of the benefits of Jackson is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 12.79 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Jackson is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Jackson Information and Demographics

The education level of Jackson citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 36.67% of adults in Jackson have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Jackson in 2000 was $25,004, which is wealthy relative to Wyoming, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,016 for a family of four.

Jackson is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Jackson home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Jackson is White, followed by Asian. Jackson also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.82% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Jackson include German, Irish, English, Italian, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Jackson is English. Some people also speak Spanish.