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Prospect Park, NJ

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Overview


Prospect Park is a somewhat small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 6,245 people and just one neighborhood, Prospect Park is the 272nd largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Prospect Park, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.70% of Prospect Park’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Prospect Park is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Prospect Park who work in office and administrative support (16.51%), sales jobs (8.45%), and healthcare (6.95%).

Setting & Lifestyle

For a small borough, Prospect Park has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Prospect Park exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

Demographics

The citizens of Prospect Park are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.07% of adults in Prospect Park having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Prospect Park in 2022 was $25,501, which is low income relative to New Jersey, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,004 for a family of four. However, Prospect Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Prospect Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Prospect Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Prospect Park, accounting for 55.99% of the borough’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Prospect Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Prospect Park include Dutch, Italian, Czech, German, and Haitian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Prospect Park's cultural character, accounting for 38.02% of the borough’s population.

The most common language spoken in Prospect Park is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Other Indo-European.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

Three-deckers, duplexes, old Victorian homes cut up into apartments. Independent stores on the corner selling pizza. These are some of the hallmarks of neighborhoods with lots of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. The neighborhood really stands out in this regard, however, as it is dominated by such small apartment buildings more than nearly any other neighborhood in America. This is a stunning visual and lifestyle example of this type of neighborhood. In fact, 71.6% of the real estate here are small 2, 3, or 4 unit apartment buildings, which is a higher proportion than found in 99.8% of America's neighborhoods.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.7% of the neighborhoods in NJ. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more South American and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.2% of this neighborhood's residents have South American ancestry and 14.2% have Dominican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Prospect Park are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.3%), and 17.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 Spanish, spoken by 50.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Arabic.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Prospect Park, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as South American (24.2%). There are also a number of people of Dominican ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Dutch roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.8%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (5.2%), among others. In addition, 38.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (45.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.9%) 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 (20.9%) . 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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