About Cliffwood

Cliffwood is a very small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 2,436 people and just one neighborhood, Cliffwood is the 436th largest community in New Jersey.

Cliffwood is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cliffwood is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cliffwood who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.40%), sales jobs (12.99%), and computer science and math (6.33%).

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

In addition, Cliffwood 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.

In Cliffwood, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.99 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Cliffwood 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.

Cliffwood Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Cliffwood who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 23.11% of adults in Cliffwood have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cliffwood in 2000 was $23,740, which is lower middle income relative to New Jersey, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,960 for a family of four.

Cliffwood is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cliffwood home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cliffwood is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cliffwood include Italian, Irish, Polish, and German.

The most common language spoken in Cliffwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.