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Wrightstown, NJ

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Overview


Wrightstown is a tiny borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 717 people and just one neighborhood, Wrightstown is the 489th largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wrightstown is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wrightstown is a borough of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wrightstown who work in food service (15.18%), teaching (13.23%), and management occupations (10.51%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small borough, Wrightstown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Wrightstown rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.37% of adults 25 and older in Wrightstown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Wrightstown in 2018 was $29,072, which is low income relative to New Jersey, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,288 for a family of four. However, Wrightstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wrightstown is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Wrightstown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wrightstown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Wrightstown also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.53% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wrightstown include Italian, Irish, Polish, German, and English.

The most common language spoken in Wrightstown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wrightstown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 0.6% have Yugoslav 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 Wrightstown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.1% of U.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, 37.6% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Wrightstown, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (19.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report German roots (16.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.6%), among others. In addition, 10.0% 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 (34.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (12.8%) . 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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