About Saddle River

Saddle River is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 3,152 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Saddle River is the 393rd largest community in New Jersey.

Saddle River home prices are not only among the most expensive in New Jersey, but Saddle River real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Saddle River is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 93.47% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Saddle River is a borough of professionals, managers and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Saddle River who work in management occupations (26.06%), healthcare (17.22%) and sales jobs (13.91%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.64% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Saddle River’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Saddle River has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Saddle River has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Saddle River than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Saddle River may be for you.

In Saddle River, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.64 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Saddle River Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Saddle River is a pretty powerful place. 60.64% of the adults in Saddle River have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 19.23% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Saddle River in 2000 was $85,934, which is wealthy relative to New Jersey and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $343,736 for a family of four.

The people who call Saddle River home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Saddle River residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Saddle River include Italian, Irish, German, Polish, English and Russian.

Saddle River also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.59%.

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