Mays Landing is a medium-sized coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 21,753 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Mays Landing is the 88th largest community in New Jersey.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mays Landing is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mays Landing is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mays Landing who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.36%), sales jobs (11.55%), and personal care services (9.06%).

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

Because of many things, Mays Landing 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, Mays Landing really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Mays Landing 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.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Mays Landing are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Mays Landing 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.

Mays Landing Information and Demographics

The citizens of Mays Landing are slightly better educated than the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns, with 18.66% of adults in Mays Landing having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mays Landing in 2000 was $21,495, 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 $85,980 for a family of four.

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

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