Highland Park is a somewhat small coastal borough (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 13,999 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Highland Park is the 148th largest community in New Jersey.

Highland Park is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 89.61% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Highland Park is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Highland Park who work in teaching (15.47%), office and administrative support jobs (12.57%), and computer science and math (10.17%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Highland Park has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

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

Highland Park is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Highland Park enrolled in college, Highland Park has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.

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

In addition to being popular with young singles, Highland Park is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

The borough is also nautical, which means that parts of Highland Park are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities.

In Highland Park, a lot of people use the train to get to work every day even though Highland Park is a relatively small borough. Those that ride the train are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

Highland Park Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Highland Park is a pretty powerful place. 59.45% of the adults in Highland Park have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Highland Park in 2000 was $28,767, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,068 for a family of four.

Highland Park is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Highland Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Highland Park is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Highland Park include Italian, Russian, Irish, Polish, German, English, Hungarian, and Eastern European.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Highland Park's cultural character, accounting for 29.18% of the borough's population.

The languages spoken by people in Highland Park are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Highland Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, and Hebrew.