New Brunswick is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 55,998 people and 11 associated neighborhoods, New Brunswick is the 24th largest community in New Jersey.

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.09% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Because New Brunswick has a very large number of students who are 18 years or older and in college, it is thought of as a college town. This has a major influence on local New Brunswick lifestyle, entertainment, and culture in general. Life in New Brunswick is very much tied to the academic calendar: when students return from the summer break in the fall, one will notice them out and about, buying groceries, out with friends, and generally getting re-acquainted with each other. In New Brunswick people study hard and play hard, and there is ample opportunity to do both.

Not only is New Brunswick a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because New Brunswick is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes New Brunswick a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

New Brunswick has a lot of people who ride the bus to and from work. In fact, for its size, New Brunswick has quite a high level of public transit users. New Brunswick’s need for inexpensive transportation options for its citizens is quite high.

The population of New Brunswick overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in New Brunswick, 24.33% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in New Brunswick in 2018 was $24,057, which is low income relative to New Jersey and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,228 for a family of four. However, New Brunswick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. New Brunswick also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.88% of its population below the federal poverty line.

New Brunswick is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Brunswick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in New Brunswick, accounting for 46.88% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of New Brunswick residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Brunswick include Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and Guyanese.

In addition, New Brunswick has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (33.77%).

The most common language spoken in New Brunswick is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.