Elmwood Park is a medium-sized borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 21,256 people and four associated neighborhoods, Elmwood Park is the 93rd largest community in New Jersey.
Housing costs in Elmwood Park are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New Jersey.
Also of interest is that Elmwood Park 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 Elmwood Park telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.77% 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.
For the size of the borough, public transportation in Elmwood Park is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the bus. For Elmwood Park, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.
The citizens of Elmwood Park are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.73% of adults in Elmwood Park have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Elmwood Park in 2022 was $40,732, which is low income relative to New Jersey, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $162,928 for a family of four. However, Elmwood Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Elmwood Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Elmwood Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elmwood Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Elmwood Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.72% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Elmwood Park include Italian, Polish, Irish, German, and Jamaican.
In addition, Elmwood Park has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (35.59%).
The most common language spoken in Elmwood Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.