Grenloch is a tiny town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 863 people and just one neighborhood, Grenloch is the 480th largest community in New Jersey.
Unlike some towns, Grenloch isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Grenloch are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Grenloch is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grenloch who work in office and administrative support (20.67%), healthcare (12.14%), and business and financial occupations (8.79%).
Of important note, Grenloch is also a town of artists. Grenloch has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Grenloch’s character.
Also of interest is that Grenloch 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: 17.05% 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.
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, Grenloch has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Grenloch a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In terms of college education, Grenloch is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.84% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Grenloch in 2022 was $45,665, which is lower middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $182,660 for a family of four.
The people who call Grenloch home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grenloch residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Grenloch include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Grenloch is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Grenloch, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Grenloch are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.4% 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, 33.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Portuguese and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
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 Grenloch, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (13.9%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (9.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (8.2%), among others.
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 (42.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.