Essex Fells, NJ

About Essex Fells

Essex Fells is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 2,162 people and just one neighborhood, Essex Fells is the 450th largest community in New Jersey.

Essex Fells is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 96.18% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Essex Fells is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Essex Fells who work in management occupations (23.65%), sales jobs (17.82%), and legal occupations (8.70%).

Of important note, Essex Fells is also a borough of artists. Essex Fells has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Essex Fells's character.

In addition, Essex Fells is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Essex Fells 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, Essex Fells really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Essex Fells 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.

Being a small borough, Essex Fells does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Essex Fells Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Essex Fells, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Essex Fells is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 72.39% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Essex Fells in 2000 was $77,434, which is wealthy relative to New Jersey and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $309,736 for a family of four. However, Essex Fells contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Essex Fells is English. Some people also speak Italian.