Jackson is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,157 people and six associated neighborhoods, Jackson is the 180th largest community in Kentucky.Jackson is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Jackson is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jackson who work in food service (16.70%), teaching (11.31%), and management occupations (10.24%). One of the benefits of Jackson is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.40 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 city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Jackson who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.55% of the adults in Jackson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Jackson in 2022 was $24,381, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,524 for a family of four. However, Jackson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Jackson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jackson residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Jackson include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Dutch. The most common language spoken in Jackson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
