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Englishtown, NJ
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Englishtown profile


Living in Englishtown



Englishtown is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 2,349 people and nine associated neighborhoods, Englishtown is the 411th largest community in New Jersey.

Housing costs in Englishtown are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New Jersey.

Also of interest is that Englishtown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.21% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

One downside of living in Englishtown is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Englishtown, the average commute to work is 33.08 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the borough, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative.

In Englishtown, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day though Englishtown is a relatively small borough. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

In terms of college education, Englishtown is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.55% of adults in Englishtown have a college degree.

The per capita income in Englishtown in 2018 was $48,523, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $194,092 for a family of four. However, Englishtown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Englishtown is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Englishtown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Englishtown residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Englishtown also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.51% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Englishtown include Italian, Irish, Polish, German, and Hungarian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Englishtown's cultural character, accounting for 24.05% of the borough’s population.

The most common language spoken in Englishtown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.