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South Bound Brook, NJ

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Overview


South Bound Brook is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 4,833 people and just one neighborhood, South Bound Brook is the 318th largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

South Bound Brook is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, South Bound Brook is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Bound Brook who work in office and administrative support (15.08%), sales jobs (11.50%), and management occupations (8.50%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.98% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of people in South Bound Brook who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.17% of adults in South Bound Brook have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in South Bound Brook in 2018 was $39,845, 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 $159,380 for a family of four. However, South Bound Brook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

South Bound Brook is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call South Bound Brook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Bound Brook residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. South Bound Brook also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.23% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in South Bound Brook include Irish, Italian, German, Polish, and English.

South Bound Brook also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 23.01%.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Russian and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Russian ancestry and 5.8% have South American ancestry.

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 South Bound Brook are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 31.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 16.8% 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 63.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in South Bound Brook, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.6%), along with some South American ancestry residents (5.8%), among others. In addition, 23.0% 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 (41.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.5%) 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 (13.2%) . 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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