About Turnersville

Turnersville is a very small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 3,862 people and just one neighborhood, Turnersville is the 382nd largest community in New Jersey.

Turnersville is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Turnersville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Turnersville who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.84%), sales jobs (15.29%), and management occupations (12.83%).

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

In addition, Turnersville 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, Turnersville 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, Turnersville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Turnersville 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 Turnersville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.92 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Turnersville Information and Demographics

The citizens of Turnersville are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.04% of adults in Turnersville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Turnersville in 2000 was $28,734, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,936 for a family of four. However, Turnersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Turnersville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Turnersville is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Turnersville include Italian, Irish, German, English, Polish, and Russian.

The most common language spoken in Turnersville is English. Some people also speak Spanish.