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Edison, NJ (Town Center) Help

Found within zip codes: 08817

About Town Center

Real Estate Prices and Overview

Median real estate prices in the Town Center of Edison are $378,213, which is more expensive than 65.6% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey and 84.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

Average rental prices in Edison Town Center are currently $1,450, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 71.5% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey.

Edison Town Center is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Edison, New Jersey.

Real estate in the Town Center of Edison, NJ is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Town Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1994.

In Edison Town Center, the current vacancy rate is 3.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 90.1% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Edison Town Center is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The 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: Diversity

Did you know that the Edison Town Center neighborhood has more Hungarian and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.0% have Eastern European ancestry.

Edison Town Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Hindi, which is the official language of India at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Notable & Unique: Migration/Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Edison Town Center neighborhood. More residents of the Edison Town Center neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

The Neighbors The Neighbors: Income

There 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 Town Center neighborhood in Edison are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 89.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% 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 69.4% of America's neighborhoods.

The Neighbors: Occupations

A 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 Edison Town Center neighborhood, 44.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 12.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

The Neighbors: Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior - comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures. In the Town Center neighborhood in Edison, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (13.1%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (11.8%) , and residents who report German roots (11.1%) , and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (11.0%) , along with some Polish ancestry residents (10.2%), among others. In addition, 18.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

The Neighbors: 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 Edison Town Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 76.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, South Asian languages, Chinese and Hindi (which is the official language of India).

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 Edison Town Center neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (72.5%) 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 (8.4%) and 7.4% 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.

NEIGHBORHOOD COST DETAILS
MEDIAN HOUSE VALUE $378,213
HOUSE VALUE RANGE
COST
$1,857,001+ 0%
$1,392,001-$1,857,000 1%
$928,001-$1,392,000 1%
$743,001-$928,000 4%
$557,001-$743,000 11%
$371,001-$557,000 15%
$186,001-$371,000 67%
$93,001-$186,000 2%
$0-$93,000 0%
RENTAL PRICE High cost relative to NJ, very high cost relative to the nation
NEIGHBORHOOD LOOK, FEEL, & CHARACTER DETAILS
THE SETTING Urban (based on population density)
TYPE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS Mostly Single-family homes, some Complexes/high rise apartments, some Small apartment buildings and a few Rowhouses & attached homes
SIZE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS Mostly Medium-sized dwellings (3 or 4 bedrooms), some Small dwellings (1, 2, or no bedrooms) and a few Large dwellings (4 or 5 bedrooms)
AGE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS Mostly Well established older homes (Built 1940 - 1969), some Established but not old (Built 1970 – 1994) and some Historic homes (Built 1939 or earlier)
HOMEOWNERSHIP Mostly Owner occupied
SPECIAL CHARACTER Mostly Urban Sophisticates and Walkable
THE NEIGHBORS DETAILS
AGE & LIFESTYLE Mostly Young singles-upwardly mobile (young, educated, professionally employed, and single), some Families with children (family households with school-aged children), some Seniors (people 65 and over) and some College students (people currently attending college)
EDUCATION LEVEL Rating: 9 (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 Clerical, assistants & technical support, some Sales & Service workers, some Manufacturing & Laborers and some Government employees
ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY Mostly White (non-Hispanic), some Italian ancestry, some East Asian, some Irish ancestry, some Hispanic, some Asian Indian, some Black and some Puerto Rican
LANGUAGES Mostly English speaking, some Spanish speaking and some Italian speaking

School Rating Information

Neighborhood Educational Rating

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SCHOOLS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD * GRADES
THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE
450 DIVISION ST, EDISON, NJ 08817
(732) 650-5290
06-08
JOHN MARSHALL
15 CORNELL ST, EDISON, NJ 08817
(732) 650-5370
KG-05

* Depending on where you live in this neighborhood, your children may attend these schools or other schools outside the neighborhood. Always check with your local school department to determine which schools your children may attend based on your specific address and your child's grade-level.

This neighborhood is served by one 1 district.

EDISON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT

14,277 Students enrolled in District

17 Schools in District

District quality compared to New Jersey
District quality compared to U.S.
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per classroom
12
State average is 12

Public School Test Scores (No Child Left Behind)

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ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS THIS DISTRICT THIS STATE
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
Educational Expenditures
FOR THIS DISTRICT PER STUDENT TOTAL % OF TOTAL
INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES $8,686 $124,003,000 58.2
SUPPORT EXPENDITURES
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
NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT Help
ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) 35.5
CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) 3.3

Neighborhood Appreciation Rates Help

PERIOD TOTAL APPRECIATION AVG. ANNUAL RATE COMPARED TO NJ* COMPARED TO AMERICA*
SINCE 1990 80.54% 2.89% 4 3
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* 10 is highest

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Neighborhood Crime Data Help

CRIME INDEX
(100 is safest)
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Neighborhood Annual Crimes

VIOLENT PROPERTY TOTAL
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Violent Crime Comparison per 1,000 residents

National Median 4.0

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in Edison 1 in 1268

in New Jersey 1 in 324

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Property Crime Rate Comparison per 1,000 residents

National Median 29.4

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in Edison 1 in 54

in New Jersey 1 in 48

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Crimes Per Square Mile

National Median 39.3

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