About Pine Brook

Pine Brook is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 5,172 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Brook is the 329th largest community in New Jersey.

Pine Brook is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.89% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pine Brook is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Brook who work in management occupations (16.40%), sales jobs (15.32%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.57%).

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

In addition, Pine Brook is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Because of many things, Pine Brook is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Pine Brook 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, Pine Brook has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Pine Brook's overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

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

Pine Brook Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Pine Brook, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Pine Brook is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 55.57% 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 Pine Brook in 2000 was $41,205, 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 $164,820 for a family of four. However, Pine Brook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pine Brook is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pine Brook home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pine Brook is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pine Brook include Italian, Irish, Polish, German, Russian, and Albanian.

In addition, Pine Brook has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (24.85%).

The languages spoken by people in Pine Brook 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 Pine Brook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, Spanish, Other Asian languages, and Gujarathi.