Found within zip codes: 08837
Popular real estate near Edison, NJ (Clara Barton / Raritan Manor)
Clara Barton / Raritan Manor median real estate prices are $317,049, which is more expensive than 45.6% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey and 78.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
Average rental prices in Clara Barton / Raritan Manor are currently $1,295, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price then 43.4% of New Jersey neighborhoods.
Clara Barton / Raritan Manor is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Edison, New Jersey.
Clara Barton / Raritan Manor real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.9% in Clara Barton / Raritan Manor. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 58.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood CharacteristicsThe way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Notable & Unique: DiversityDid you know that the Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood has more Hungarian and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 2.1% have Ukrainian ancestry.
Clara Barton / Raritan Manor is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% 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 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Notable & Unique: Real EstateEven if you drive or take transit to your place of employment, many people enjoy being able to walk in their neighborhood. What many people don't realize is that most of America's premier vacation locations are also very walkable. The Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.
The Neighbors The Neighbors: IncomeThere are two complimentary 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 Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood in Edison are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 65.1% of America's neighborhoods.
The Neighbors: OccupationsA neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the shear diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations. In the Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood, 32.2% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.1%), and 17.4% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The Neighbors: Ethnicity / AncestryBoston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today. In the Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood in Edison, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (16.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.0%) , and residents who report German roots (9.8%) , and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.2%) , along with some Asian ancestry residents (6.5%), among others. In addition, 19.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
The Neighbors: LanguagesThe 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 Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and South Asian languages.
Getting to WorkEven 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 Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (6.6%) and 6.5% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. 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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| RENTAL PRICE | Medium cost relative to NJ, very high cost relative to the nation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NEIGHBORHOOD LOOK, FEEL, & CHARACTER | DETAILS |
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| THE SETTING | Urban (based on population density) |
| TYPE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Single-family homes, some Small apartment buildings, some Complexes/high rise apartments and a few Rowhouses & attached homes |
| SIZE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Small dwellings (1, 2, or no bedrooms), some Medium-sized dwellings (3 or 4 bedrooms) and a few Large dwellings (4 or 5 bedrooms) |
| AGE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Well established older homes (Built 1940 - 1969), some Historic homes (Built 1939 or earlier), some Established but not old (Built 1970 – 1994) and some Newer Homes (Built 1995 or later) |
| HOMEOWNERSHIP | Mixed owners & renters |
| SPECIAL CHARACTER | Mostly Walkable, Hip & Trendy and Urban Sophisticates |
| THE NEIGHBORS | DETAILS |
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| AGE & LIFESTYLE | Mostly Young singles-upwardly mobile (young, educated, professionally employed, and single), some Mixed ages, some Seniors (people 65 and over), some Families with children (family households with school-aged children) and some College students (people currently attending college) |
| EDUCATION LEVEL | Rating: 7 (5 is average for the U.S., 10 is most educated) |
| INCOME | Upper middle income (well-above average income for America) |
| OCCUPATIONS | Mostly Executive, managerial & professional, some Sales & Service workers, some Clerical, assistants & technical support, some Manufacturing & Laborers and some Government employees |
| ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY | Mostly White (non-Hispanic), some Italian ancestry, some Irish ancestry, some Hispanic, some East Asian, some Black, some Puerto Rican and some Asian Indian |
| LANGUAGES | Mostly English speaking, some Spanish speaking, some Portuguese speaking, some French speaking and some Italian speaking |
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HERBERT HOOVER MIDDLE
174 JACKSON AVE, EDISON, NJ 08837 (732) 452-2940 |
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| ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
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| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) | 28.2 | 53.0 |
| BLACK (%) | 9.1 | 17.1 |
| HISPANIC (%) | 9.3 | 20.6 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) | 53.4 | 8.5 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| ECONOMIC GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) | 15.2 | 31.9 |
| FOR THIS DISTRICT | PER STUDENT | TOTAL | % OF TOTAL |
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| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $8,686 | $124,003,000 | 58.2 |
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| STUDENT | $1,288 | $18,387,000 | 8.6 |
| STAFF | $364 | $5,197,000 | 2.4 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION | $244 | $3,481,000 | 1.6 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION | $560 | $8,000,000 | 3.8 |
| OPERATION | $1,430 | $20,414,000 | 9.6 |
| TRANSPORTATION | $759 | $10,837,000 | 5.1 |
| OTHER | $132 | $1,879,000 | 0.9 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT | $4,777 | $68,195,000 | 32.0 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $1,456 | $20,787,000 | 9.8 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | $14,918 | $212,985,000 | 100.0 |
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| ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) | 22.5 |
| CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) | 3.9 |
| PERIOD | TOTAL APPRECIATION | AVG. ANNUAL RATE | COMPARED TO NJ* | COMPARED TO AMERICA* |
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| SINCE 1990 | 72.55% | 2.66% | 3 | 3 |
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Clara Barton / Raritan Manor neighborhood appreciation rates are for subscribers only. Edison, NJ appreciation rates (city-wide averages) are open to all visitors.
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