Shiloh is a tiny borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 443 people and just one neighborhood, Shiloh is the 505th largest community in New Jersey. Shiloh has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Shiloh is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shiloh is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shiloh who work in office and administrative support (22.46%), healthcare suport services (12.32%), and management occupations (10.14%).
The borough 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, Shiloh has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shiloh a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small borough, Shiloh does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Shiloh overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Shiloh, 21.39% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Shiloh in 2022 was $37,918, which is low income relative to New Jersey, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $151,672 for a family of four. However, Shiloh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shiloh is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Shiloh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shiloh residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Shiloh also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.55% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shiloh include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Shiloh's cultural character, accounting for 16.61% of the borough’s population.
The most common language spoken in Shiloh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Shiloh, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Significantly, 18.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Shiloh are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.1% 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, 42.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.9%), and 16.8% 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 87.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Shiloh, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report English roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (5.8%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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 (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.