Alloway township, Salem County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (83% naturalized citizens)
| Alloway township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
73% of Alloway township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1909
- Northeast: 303
- Midwest: 50
- South: 414
- West: 34
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $110,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Alloway township, New Jersey:
- 62 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 42 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 19 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 967
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 4
Housing units in Alloway township with a mortgage: 471 (71 second mortgage, 76 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 168
- Construction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Alloway township:
- German (19.1%)
- English (14.3%)
- Irish (13.8%)
- Italian (11.6%)
- United States or American (10.7%)
- Polish (3.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (29%)
- Brazil (21%)
- Canada (21%)
- Austria (8%)
- Poland (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Thailand (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,107 (84%)
- Carpooled: 109 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 28 (2%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (78%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (5%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Alloway township, New Jersey:
- 62 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 42 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 19 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
94.9% of residents of Alloway township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,650- In family households: 2,442 (637 male householders, 119 female householders)
662 spouses, 868 children (784 natural, 28 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 35 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 208 (87 male householders (79 living alone)), 102 female householders (97 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 124 (22 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 306 2-persons, 149 3-persons, 183 4-persons, 77 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 176 1-person, 9 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
576 married couples with children.
72 single-parent households (36 men, 36 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
| Here: | 7.0% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
| Here: | 7.3% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 21.5% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |