About Ho-Ho-Kus

Ho-Ho-Kus is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 4,060 people and just one neighborhood, Ho-Ho-Kus is the 373rd largest community in New Jersey.

Ho-Ho-Kus is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 93.24% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ho-Ho-Kus is a borough of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ho-Ho-Kus who work in management occupations (23.26%), sales jobs (17.50%), and office and administrative support jobs (9.95%).

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

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

In addition, Ho-Ho-Kus is home to many people who could 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.

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

In Ho-Ho-Kus, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.63 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Ho-Ho-Kus Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Ho-Ho-Kus, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Ho-Ho-Kus is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 68.34% 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 Ho-Ho-Kus in 2000 was $63,594, which is wealthy relative to New Jersey and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $254,376 for a family of four. However, Ho-Ho-Kus contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ho-Ho-Kus home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Ho-Ho-Kus is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ho-Ho-Kus include Italian, Irish, German, English, Dutch, Russian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Ho-Ho-Kus is English. Some people also speak Spanish.