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North Jackson, OH

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Overview


North Jackson is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,101 people and just one neighborhood, North Jackson is the 452nd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, North Jackson isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in North Jackson are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, North Jackson is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in North Jackson who work in sales jobs (13.25%), maintenance occupations (9.61%), and healthcare (9.61%).

A relatively large number of people in North Jackson telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.63% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, North Jackson has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes North Jackson a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

The citizens of North Jackson are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.94% of adults in North Jackson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in North Jackson in 2018 was $28,661, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,644 for a family of four. However, North Jackson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

North Jackson is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call North Jackson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North Jackson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in North Jackson include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Slovak.

The most common language spoken in North Jackson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 2.2% have Croatian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in North Jackson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 30.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (28.2%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in North Jackson, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report English roots (13.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.6%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (6.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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