High Bridge, NJ

About High Bridge

High Bridge is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 3,776 people and just one neighborhood, High Bridge is the 386th largest community in New Jersey.

High Bridge is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, High Bridge is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in High Bridge who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.87%), sales jobs (14.15%), and management occupations (10.22%).

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

In addition, High Bridge 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, High Bridge 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, High Bridge really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is High Bridge 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.

One downside of living in High Bridge is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In High Bridge, the average commute to work is 33.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

High Bridge is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

High Bridge Information and Demographics

The population of High Bridge is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 39.05% of adults in High Bridge have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in High Bridge in 2000 was $29,276, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,104 for a family of four. However, High Bridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in High Bridge is English.