Highland Park is a medium-sized borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 14,959 people and three associated neighborhoods, Highland Park is the 128th largest community in New Jersey. Housing costs in Highland 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.Highland Park is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 89.91% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Highland Park is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Highland Park who work in teaching (16.71%), business and financial occupations (13.38%), and management occupations (11.89%). Also of interest is that Highland Park 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: 24.18% 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. In Highland Park, a lot of people use the train to get to work every day though Highland Park is a relatively small borough. Those that ride the train are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Highland Park. 70.21% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%. The per capita income in Highland Park in 2022 was $56,392, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $225,568 for a family of four. However, Highland Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Highland Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Highland Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Highland Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Highland Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.97% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Highland Park include Irish, Polish, Russian, Italian, and English. Highland Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 34.70%. The most common language spoken in Highland Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
