Jackson TownshipDeKalb County, IN
A town of 3,812, founded in 1851.
Is Jackson Township a good place to live?
Jackson Township gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $306K for a typical one, or 4.1 years of the Auburn area’s $74K median household income. It grades B+ overall, 255th among Indiana's 585 graded towns. On the plus side, the median household earns $103K. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 89% of U.S. towns. On civic life, just 72 of Indiana’s 1,043 towns do worse. 94% of households live in a home they own in Jackson Township, where Indiana’s towns sit at 76% and U.S. towns at 73%.
Jackson Township has grown 23% since 2010
3,064 counted in 2010 and 3,664 in 2020; an estimated 3,812 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Jackson Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Jackson Township is from typical.
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Moving to Jackson Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Jackson Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Jackson Township.
Jackson Township has little public open land, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Jackson Township has 0.4 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
Just 3% of Jackson Township’s working residents have a job in town. Since 2013, Jackson Township has added 87 jobs, to 644 in 2023. The share of residents in Jackson Township who live below the poverty line: 5%. Half the trips to work are shorter than 13 miles.
| Jackson Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $103,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 5% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.7% | 11% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Jackson Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 84° and January nights of 17°, with about 30 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Young adults are less common in Jackson Township than in Indiana
Among adults 25 and older in Jackson Township, 39% hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Adults 18 to 34 are 15% of residents (23% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 42% of residents (37% statewide). Population is up 2.9% in the town since 2020, to 3,812 by the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Jackson Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 39% | 22% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 25% | 23% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.3 points. Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Jackson Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.3% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.6% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.6% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.8% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 19.3% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.4% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11.8% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.9% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.3% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 10.3% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 24.1% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 18.2% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.8% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.8% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.8% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,800, single groups can be off by several points
Residents of Jackson Township are less healthy than 63% of U.S. towns
Against the 8,067 U.S. towns with household incomes like Jackson Township’s, it is less healthy than 88%, so it trails even them.
For adults in Jackson Township, the share who have been diagnosed with depression is 26%. Against the Indiana average, Jackson Township comes out ahead on 4 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 1.
| Jackson Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 39% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 26% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 17% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 39% | 35% |
| What stands out | Jackson Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.1% | 14.7% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 7% | 8.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.4% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The biggest natural risk in Jackson Township is inland flooding, at a low overall level
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in nearly two thirds of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 56% of Jackson Township’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 17% to tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0.1% of the land in Jackson Township is protected from building
Just 30 of its 22,630 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Jackson Township itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
0.4 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The biggest park or preserve is James P. Covell Nature Preserve, at 90 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. James P. Covell Nature Preserve | — | 90 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum and 7 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Jackson Township. Close and well known come first.
4 mi MuseumAuburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum
16 mi Zoo & aquariumFort Wayne Children's Zoo26 mi Theme parkFun Spot Amusement Park & Zoo
17 mi MuseumFort Wayne Museum of Art
17 mi GardenFoellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory
38 mi MuseumUnited States Vice Presidential MuseumPhoto credits
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum: Michael Walter, a.k.a. Cuppysfriend, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Wayne Children's Zoo: Momoneymoproblemz, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Wayne Museum of Art: Momoneymoproblemz, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United States Vice Presidential Museum: Pilcrow, Public domain
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Everything we know about Jackson Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Jackson Township
About 5 of every 100 Jackson Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Indiana.
97% of working residents leave Jackson Township for work
Where Jackson Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Jackson Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Jackson Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Township | #255 | B+ | B+ | — | B+ | C+ |
| Union Township | #154 | A− | A | — | B+ | C+ |
| Butler Township | — | — | A− | — | B− | C |
| Concord Township | — | — | A+ | — | B | C+ |
| Cedar Creek Township | #246 | B+ | C+ | — | B− | B+ |
| Spencer Township | — | — | B | — | B | B− |
Butler Township, Concord Township and Spencer Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Jackson Township, Union Township, Butler Township, Concord Township, Cedar Creek Township and Spencer Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Jackson Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Jackson Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Jackson Township, IN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Jackson Township grades B+ overall, better than 65% of U.S. towns and #255 of 585 in Indiana. It grades C+ for health and B+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Jackson Township, IN expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.