Cliffside Park is a medium-sized borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 23,007 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Cliffside Park is the 82nd largest community in New Jersey.

Cliffside Park is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cliffside Park is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cliffside Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.60%), sales jobs (13.20%), and management occupations (11.62%).

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

In addition, Cliffside Park 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.

In Cliffside Park, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.23 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.

Like elsewhere in America, most people in Cliffside Park use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Cliffside Park's citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the bus. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.

Cliffside Park Information and Demographics

The education level of Cliffside Park citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 32.68% of adults in Cliffside Park have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cliffside Park in 2000 was $28,516, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,064 for a family of four.

Cliffside Park is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Cliffside Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cliffside Park is White, followed by Asian. Cliffside Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.92% of the borough's residents. Important ancestries of people in Cliffside Park include Italian, Irish, Armenian, German, Russian, Polish, Croatian, and Brazilian.

Cliffside Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 43.26%.

The languages spoken by people in Cliffside Park 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 Cliffside Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Armenian, Portuguese, Russian, and Other Asian languages.