Pittsgrove township, Salem County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (85% naturalized citizens)
Pittsgrove township: | 2.0% |
Whole state: | 17.5% |
74% of Pittsgrove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 28% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6244
- Northeast: 1692
- Midwest: 160
- South: 526
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $139,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Pittsgrove township, New Jersey:
- 109 people in nursing homes
- 32 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,519
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 30
- 3 or 4: 37
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 536
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,900
Housing units in Pittsgrove township with a mortgage: 1,428 (152 second mortgage, 244 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 588
- Transportation equipment (30%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Transportation equipment (19%)
- Plastics and rubber products (14%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (21%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pittsgrove township:
- Italian (19.4%)
- German (19.3%)
- Irish (12.4%)
- English (8.8%)
- United States or American (5.9%)
- Polish (5.5%)
- Ukrainian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ukraine (17%)
- Other Eastern Europe (15%)
- Haiti (14%)
- Korea (12%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- Austria (8%)
- Poland (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,601 (85%)
- Carpooled: 397 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 65 (2%)
- Other means: 47 (1%)
- Worked at home: 117 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (3%)
People in group quarters in Pittsgrove township, New Jersey:
- 109 people in nursing homes
- 32 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.1% of residents of Pittsgrove township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,747- In family households: 7,912 (2,027 male householders, 374 female householders)
2,000 spouses, 2,945 children (2,869 natural, 32 adopted, 44 stepchildren), 256 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 49 parents, 118 other relatives, 124 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 835 (256 male householders (187 living alone)), 352 female householders (303 living alone)), 227 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 146 (97 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 830 2-persons, 538 3-persons, 630 4-persons, 260 5-persons, 87 6-persons, 56 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 490 1-person, 86 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 5 4-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
1,724 married couples with children.
385 single-parent households (118 men, 267 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 107
Here: | 8.5% |
New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 58
Here: | 8.9% |
New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 47
Here: | 19.4% |
New Jersey: | 30.1% |