Woodcliff Lake, NJ

About Woodcliff Lake

Woodcliff Lake is a somewhat small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 5,745 people and just one neighborhood, Woodcliff Lake is the 312nd largest community in New Jersey.

Woodcliff Lake is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 93.25% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Woodcliff Lake is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Woodcliff Lake who work in management occupations (18.28%), sales jobs (16.96%), and office and administrative support jobs (13.57%).

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

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

A relatively large number of people in Woodcliff Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.26% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

In addition, Woodcliff Lake 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, Woodcliff Lake 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, Woodcliff Lake really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Woodcliff Lake 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 Woodcliff Lake, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.43 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Woodcliff Lake Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Woodcliff Lake, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Woodcliff Lake is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 58.30% 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 Woodcliff Lake in 2000 was $53,461,