About Flanders

Flanders is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 12,276 people and just one neighborhood, Flanders is the 173rd largest community in New Jersey.

Flanders is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Flanders is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flanders who work in management occupations (16.63%), office and administrative support jobs (13.68%), and sales jobs (11.70%).

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

Flanders, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the town.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Flanders is also home to many people who can 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, Flanders is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Flanders 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, Flanders has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Flanders's overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Flanders, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.56 minutes every day commuting to work.

Residents of Flanders by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 97.1% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Flanders may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

Being a small town, Flanders does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Flanders Information and Demographics

The education level of Flanders citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 43.41% of adults in Flanders have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Flanders in 2000 was $34,086, 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 $136,344 for a family of four. However, Flanders contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Flanders is English. Some people also speak Spanish.