Work and Jobs in Scotch Plains, New Jersey (NJ) Detailed Stats
Occupations, Industries, Unemployment, Workers, Commute
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The most common industries in Scotch Plains are: Professional, scientific, technical services (13.7% of civilian employees), Health care (9.9% of civilian employees), Finance & insurance (9.7% of civilian employees). 68.1% of workers are employees of private companies, which is 3.7% less than the rate of 70.6% across the entire state of New Jersey.
Most common industries
Most common industries | |||
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Industry | All | Males | Females |
Professional, scientific, and technical services | 13.7% (1,574) | 15.9% (987) | 11.0% (587) |
Health care | 9.9% (1,138) | 6.2% (383) | 14.2% (755) |
Finance and insurance | 9.7% (1,120) | 10.1% (625) | 9.3% (495) |
Educational services | 9.0% (1,033) | 3.6% (226) | 15.1% (807) |
Public administration | 4.3% (491) | 4.7% (293) | 3.7% (198) |
Chemicals | 4.2% (480) | 3.7% (231) | 4.7% (249) |
Construction | 4.1% (467) | 6.6% (408) | 1.1% (59) |
Broadcasting and telecommunications | 4.0% (464) | 5.0% (311) | 2.9% (153) |
Administrative and support and waste management services | 3.2% (373) | 3.9% (241) | 2.5% (132) |
Accommodation and food services | 2.3% (261) | 2.1% (128) | 2.5% (133) |
Food and beverage stores | 2.1% (241) | 1.8% (112) | 2.4% (129) |
Real estate and rental and leasing | 1.8% (206) | 1.8% (113) | 1.7% (93) |
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations | 1.8% (206) | 1.2% (75) | 2.5% (131) |
Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries | 1.7% (198) | 1.6% (102) | 1.8% (96) |
Social assistance | 1.5% (172) | 0.1% (4) | 3.2% (168) |
Computer and electronic products | 1.3% (151) | 1.6% (96) | 1.0% (55) |
Department and other general merchandise stores | 1.2% (137) | 1.5% (91) | 0.9% (46) |
Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores | 1.2% (134) | 0.2% (11) | 2.3% (123) |
Data processing, libraries, and other information services | 1.1% (132) | 1.2% (74) | 1.1% (58) |
Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers | 1.1% (129) | 1.6% (98) | 0.6% (31) |
Repair and maintenance | 1.0% (118) | 1.6% (102) | 0.3% (16) |
Miscellaneous manufacturing | 1.0% (117) | 1.5% (90) | 0.5% (27) |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 1.0% (116) | 1.0% (59) | 1.1% (57) |
Radio, TV, and computer stores | 0.9% (104) | 1.2% (75) | 0.5% (29) |
Personal and laundry services | 0.9% (104) | 1.0% (62) | 0.8% (42) |
Other direct selling establishments | 0.8% (90) | 0.5% (32) | 1.1% (58) |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 0.8% (90) | 1.3% (82) | 0.2% (8) |
Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores | 0.7% (80) | 0.6% (40) | 0.8% (40) |
Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.7% (77) | 0.7% (46) | 0.6% (31) |
Machinery | 0.7% (77) | 0.6% (37) | 0.8% (40) |
Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.6% (74) | 1.2% (74) | 0.0% (0) |
Printing and related support activities | 0.6% (66) | 0.5% (28) | 0.7% (38) |
Truck transportation | 0.6% (64) | 1.0% (64) | 0.0% (0) |
Metal and metal products | 0.5% (62) | 0.9% (58) | 0.1% (4) |
Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.5% (59) | 1.0% (59) | 0.0% (0) |
U. S. Postal service | 0.5% (57) | 0.9% (57) | 0.0% (0) |
Food | 0.5% (52) | 0.3% (17) | 0.7% (35) |
Office supplies and stationery stores | 0.4% (50) | 0.4% (26) | 0.5% (24) |
Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores | 0.4% (49) | 0.2% (13) | 0.7% (36) |
Health and personal care, except drug, stores | 0.4% (48) | 0.3% (21) | 0.5% (27) |
Pharmacies and drug stores | 0.4% (44) | 0.3% (18) | 0.5% (26) |
Utilities | 0.4% (42) | 0.4% (22) | 0.4% (20) |
Plastics and rubber products | 0.4% (41) | 0.3% (20) | 0.4% (21) |
Petroleum and coal products | 0.3% (38) | 0.5% (29) | 0.2% (9) |
Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores | 0.3% (37) | 0.6% (37) | 0.0% (0) |
Air transportation | 0.3% (37) | 0.1% (6) | 0.6% (31) |
Apparel, fabrics, and notions merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (35) | 0.4% (22) | 0.2% (13) |
Electrical equipment, appliances, and components | 0.3% (34) | 0.3% (21) | 0.2% (13) |
Apparel | 0.3% (34) | 0.2% (14) | 0.4% (20) |
Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (31) | 0.5% (31) | 0.0% (0) |
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers | 0.3% (31) | 0.4% (22) | 0.2% (9) |
Warehousing and storage | 0.3% (29) | 0.3% (21) | 0.2% (8) |
Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores | 0.2% (28) | 0.1% (9) | 0.4% (19) |
Nonmetallic mineral products | 0.2% (27) | 0.3% (18) | 0.2% (9) |
Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (27) | 0.4% (27) | 0.0% (0) |
Book stores and news dealers | 0.2% (25) | 0.2% (12) | 0.2% (13) |
Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (24) | 0.3% (19) | 0.1% (5) |
Management of companies and enterprises | 0.2% (23) | 0.1% (8) | 0.3% (15) |
Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (22) | 0.4% (22) | 0.0% (0) |
Drugs, sundries, and chemical and allied products merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (21) | 0.0% (0) | 0.4% (21) |
Beverage and tobacco products | 0.2% (21) | 0.2% (15) | 0.1% (6) |
Private households | 0.2% (20) | 0.0% (0) | 0.4% (20) |
Paper and paper products merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (20) | 0.2% (12) | 0.2% (8) |
Transportation equipment | 0.1% (14) | 0.2% (14) | 0.0% (0) |
Retail florists | 0.1% (13) | 0.1% (8) | 0.1% (5) |
Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (13) | 0.1% (6) | 0.1% (7) |
Gasoline stations | 0.1% (13) | 0.2% (13) | 0.0% (0) |
Farm supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (12) | 0.2% (12) | 0.0% (0) |
Paper | 0.1% (9) | 0.1% (9) | 0.0% (0) |
Textile mills and textile products | 0.1% (9) | 0.1% (9) | 0.0% (0) |
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses | 0.1% (8) | 0.1% (8) | 0.0% (0) |
Rail transportation | 0.1% (8) | 0.1% (8) | 0.0% (0) |
Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (8) | 0.1% (8) | 0.0% (0) |
Metals and minerals, except petroleum, merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (8) | 0.1% (8) | 0.0% (0) |
Vending machine operators | 0.1% (7) | 0.1% (7) | 0.0% (0) |
Furniture and related product manufacturing | 0.1% (7) | 0.1% (7) | 0.0% (0) |
Unemployment in Scotch Plains
- Unemployment by race in 2000
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 1.8%Males
- 3.1%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 6.0%Males
- 1.3%Females
- Unemployment rate for Asian residents
- 1.7%Males
- 1.7%Females
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 4.1%Males
- 4.1%Females
Time leaving home to go to work
<5am:
Scotch Plains: | 1.4% (164) |
New Jersey: | 2.4% (92,776) |
5:30am:
Scotch Plains: | 1.5% (169) |
New Jersey: | 2.1% (83,147) |
6am:
Scotch Plains: | 1.5% (169) |
New Jersey: | 3.2% (124,191) |
6:30am:
Scotch Plains: | 5.1% (574) |
New Jersey: | 7.7% (297,494) |
7am:
Scotch Plains: | 10.7% (1,210) |
New Jersey: | 9.5% (369,088) |
7:30am:
Scotch Plains: | 16.0% (1,812) |
New Jersey: | 14.4% (558,435) |
8am:
Scotch Plains: | 17.6% (1,995) |
New Jersey: | 15.3% (592,839) |
8:30am:
Scotch Plains: | 16.1% (1,820) |
New Jersey: | 14.0% (541,137) |
9am:
Scotch Plains: | 8.9% (1,011) |
New Jersey: | 7.6% (295,834) |
10am:
Scotch Plains: | 6.5% (741) |
New Jersey: | 6.4% (246,745) |
11am:
Scotch Plains: | 2.0% (227) |
New Jersey: | 2.4% (92,391) |
12pm:
Scotch Plains: | 1.5% (172) |
New Jersey: | 1.1% (43,997) |
4pm:
Scotch Plains: | 3.0% (341) |
New Jersey: | 5.5% (213,079) |
>4pm:
Scotch Plains: | 3.9% (443) |
New Jersey: | 5.6% (218,724) |
Travel time to work
Daytime population change due to commuting: -5,841 (-25.7%)
Workers who live and work in this place: 1,448 (12.8%)
Workers who live and work in this place: 1,448 (12.8%)
Less than 5 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 1.7% (194) |
New Jersey: | 2.6% (99,241) |
5 to 9 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 7.3% (830) |
New Jersey: | 9.0% (347,598) |
10 to 14 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 10.9% (1,230) |
New Jersey: | 12.5% (482,988) |
15 to 19 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 10.7% (1,209) |
New Jersey: | 13.2% (510,571) |
20 to 24 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 12.6% (1,427) |
New Jersey: | 12.8% (497,467) |
25 to 29 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 6.1% (691) |
New Jersey: | 5.4% (210,226) |
30 to 34 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 11.5% (1,299) |
New Jersey: | 12.7% (492,539) |
35 to 39 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 4.1% (468) |
New Jersey: | 2.8% (109,571) |
40 to 44 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 4.5% (513) |
New Jersey: | 4.0% (156,148) |
45 to 59 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 9.6% (1,086) |
New Jersey: | 9.1% (352,609) |
60 to 89 minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 11.2% (1,263) |
New Jersey: | 8.7% (335,777) |
90 or more minutes:
Scotch Plains: | 5.6% (638) |
New Jersey: | 4.5% (175,142) |
Means of transportation to work
Drove car alone:
Scotch Plains: | 75.5% (8,551) |
New Jersey: | 73.0% (2,828,303) |
Carpooled:
Scotch Plains: | 7.1% (798) |
New Jersey: | 10.6% (412,299) |
Bus or trolley bus:
Scotch Plains: | 2.9% (325) |
New Jersey: | 5.5% (213,067) |
Subway or elevated:
Scotch Plains: | 0.5% (51) |
New Jersey: | 1.3% (50,279) |
Railroad:
Scotch Plains: | 8.6% (975) |
New Jersey: | 2.4% (93,864) |
Taxicab:
Scotch Plains: | 0.1% (8) |
New Jersey: | 0.2% (7,879) |
Motorcycle:
Scotch Plains: | 0.2% (17) |
New Jersey: | 0.0% (1,830) |
Bicycle:
Scotch Plains: | 0.1% (15) |
New Jersey: | 0.2% (9,142) |
Walked:
Scotch Plains: | 0.6% (65) |
New Jersey: | 3.1% (121,305) |
Other means:
Scotch Plains: | 0.4% (43) |
New Jersey: | 0.7% (25,484) |
Private vehicle occupancy
Drove alone:
Scotch Plains: | 91.5% (8,551) |
New Jersey: | 87.3% (2,828,303) |
In 2 person carpool:
Scotch Plains: | 6.9% (644) |
New Jersey: | 9.6% (311,146) |
In 3 person carpool:
Scotch Plains: | 1.4% (131) |
New Jersey: | 1.7% (55,192) |
In 4 person carpool:
Scotch Plains: | 0.1% (5) |
New Jersey: | 0.7% (21,516) |
In 5-6 person carpool:
Scotch Plains: | 0.1% (11) |
New Jersey: | 0.4% (12,963) |
In 7+ person carpool:
Scotch Plains: | 0.1% (7) |
New Jersey: | 0.4% (11,482) |
Class of workers
Employee of private company:
Scotch Plains: | 68.1% (7,844) |
New Jersey: | 70.6% (2,789,718) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business:
Scotch Plains: | 6.2% (716) |
New Jersey: | 3.8% (149,548) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers:
Scotch Plains: | 7.2% (829) |
New Jersey: | 6.4% (254,203) |
Local government workers:
Scotch Plains: | 8.3% (960) |
New Jersey: | 7.9% (311,080) |
State government workers:
Scotch Plains: | 2.9% (338) |
New Jersey: | 3.8% (151,067) |
Federal government workers:
Scotch Plains: | 1.9% (218) |
New Jersey: | 2.2% (88,294) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business:
Scotch Plains: | 4.9% (567) |
New Jersey: | 5.0% (197,664) |
Unpaid family workers:
Scotch Plains: | 0.4% (48) |
New Jersey: | 0.2% (8,455) |
Employee of private company - Males:
Scotch Plains: | 70.2% (4,345) |
New Jersey: | 72.1% (1,513,771) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Males:
Scotch Plains: | 9.3% (575) |
New Jersey: | 5.5% (115,635) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Males:
Scotch Plains: | 3.1% (195) |
New Jersey: | 3.9% (82,116) |
Local government workers - Males:
Scotch Plains: | 5.8% (358) |
New Jersey: | 6.3% (131,844) |
State government workers - Males:
Scotch Plains: | 2.5% (157) |
New Jersey: | 3.2% (68,111) |
Federal government workers - Males:
Scotch Plains: | 2.3% (142) |
New Jersey: | 2.6% (53,792) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Males:
Scotch Plains: | 6.4% (394) |
New Jersey: | 6.2% (130,204) |
Unpaid family workers - Males:
Scotch Plains: | 0.4% (27) |
New Jersey: | 0.2% (3,384) |
Employee of private company - Females:
Scotch Plains: | 65.7% (3,499) |
New Jersey: | 68.9% (1,275,947) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Females:
Scotch Plains: | 2.6% (141) |
New Jersey: | 1.8% (33,913) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Females:
Scotch Plains: | 11.9% (634) |
New Jersey: | 9.3% (172,087) |
Local government workers - Females:
Scotch Plains: | 11.3% (602) |
New Jersey: | 9.7% (179,236) |
State government workers - Females:
Scotch Plains: | 3.4% (181) |
New Jersey: | 4.5% (82,956) |
Federal government workers - Females:
Scotch Plains: | 1.4% (76) |
New Jersey: | 1.9% (34,502) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Females:
Scotch Plains: | 3.2% (173) |
New Jersey: | 3.6% (67,460) |
Unpaid family workers - Females:
Scotch Plains: | 0.4% (21) |
New Jersey: | 0.3% (5,071) |