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Cliffwood, NJ

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Overview


Cliffwood is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 5,376 people and just one neighborhood, Cliffwood is the 300th largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cliffwood is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cliffwood is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cliffwood who work in management occupations (12.36%), sales jobs (8.01%), and office and administrative support (7.75%).

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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Cliffwood is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cliffwood, the average commute to work is 31.12 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the town, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative.

In Cliffwood, a lot of people use the train to get to work every day though Cliffwood is a relatively small town. Those that ride the train are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

Demographics

The citizens of Cliffwood are among the most well-educated in the nation: 42.65% of adults in Cliffwood have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cliffwood in 2018 was $41,968, 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 $167,872 for a family of four. However, Cliffwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cliffwood is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cliffwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cliffwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Cliffwood also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.60% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cliffwood include Italian, German, Irish, English, and South African.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Cliffwood's cultural character, accounting for 16.21% of the town’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, 3.2% of people ride a ferry to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of ferry ridership than in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cliffwood are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.5% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 43.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.1%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Cliffwood, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (14.5%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report German roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (7.7%), among others. In addition, 16.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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