About Cedar Knolls

Cedar Knolls is a very small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 3,176 people and just one neighborhood, Cedar Knolls is the 406th largest community in New Jersey.

Cedar Knolls is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cedar Knolls is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Knolls who work in office and administrative support jobs (21.55%), management occupations (13.22%), and sales jobs (11.84%).

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

In addition, Cedar Knolls is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Because of many things, Cedar Knolls is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Cedar Knolls a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Cedar Knolls has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Cedar Knolls's overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Cedar Knolls is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Cedar Knolls, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 96.68% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Cedar Knolls is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Cedar Knolls Information and Demographics

The population of Cedar Knolls is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 37.18% of adults in Cedar Knolls have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cedar Knolls in 2000 was $32,717, which is upper middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,868 for a family of four. However, Cedar Knolls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cedar Knolls home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cedar Knolls is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Knolls include Italian, Irish, English, German, Polish, and Ukrainian.

Cedar Knolls also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.52%.

The languages spoken by people in Cedar Knolls 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 Cedar Knolls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Hindi, Other Slavic languages, Spanish, and Chinese.