About Cookstown

Cookstown is a very small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 1,122 people and just one neighborhood, Cookstown is the 486th largest community in New Jersey.

Cookstown is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cookstown is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cookstown who work in management occupations (12.14%), office and administrative support jobs (7.14%), and healthcare support services (6.61%).

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

Because of many things, Cookstown is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Cookstown really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Cookstown perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Cookstown is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Cookstown isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.26% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Cookstown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Cookstown Information and Demographics

In Cookstown, just 7.60% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Cookstown in 2000 was $20,433, which is lower middle income relative to New Jersey, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $81,732 for a family of four.

The people who call Cookstown home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cookstown is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cookstown include Irish, Italian, German, English, Scotch-Irish, French, and Swedish.

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