Belleville township, Essex County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 27 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Belleville township: | 26.8% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
61% of Belleville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 21080
- Northeast: 2842
- Midwest: 264
- South: 636
- West: 129
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $163,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Belleville township, New Jersey:
- 172 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,205
- One, attached: 538
- Two: 3,240
- 3 or 4: 1,593
- 5 to 9: 896
- 10 to 19: 1,198
- 20 to 49: 858
- 50 or more: 606
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $162,500
Housing units in Belleville township with a mortgage: 3,107 (295 second mortgage, 302 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,743
- Construction (8%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Belleville township:
- Italian (31.9%)
- Irish (6.6%)
- German (4.0%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- United States or American (2.8%)
- Portuguese (1.5%)
- English (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (17%)
- Ecuador (14%)
- Italy (10%)
- India (6%)
- Cuba (4%)
- Vietnam (4%)
- Peru (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 12,946 (77%)
- Carpooled: 1,940 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 812 (5%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 9 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 223 (1%)
- Railroad: 156 (1%)
- Taxi: 26 (0%)
- Bicycle: 17 (0%)
- Walked: 435 (3%)
- Other means: 101 (1%)
- Worked at home: 126 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (22%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Belleville township, New Jersey:
- 172 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in homes for the mentally ill
57.4% of residents of Belleville township speak English at home.
21.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
12.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
8.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (67% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 35,731- In family households: 30,263 (6,444 male householders, 2,656 female householders)
6,648 spouses, 10,919 children (10,358 natural, 180 adopted, 381 stepchildren), 613 grandchildren, 733 brothers or sisters, 563 parents, 1,059 other relatives, 628 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,468 (2,078 male householders (1,572 living alone)), 2,538 female householders (2,261 living alone)), 852 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 197 (174 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,327 2-persons, 2,292 3-persons, 1,938 4-persons, 908 5-persons, 394 6-persons, 241 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,833 1-person, 692 2-persons, 66 3-persons, 22 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
5,382 married couples with children.
1,679 single-parent households (368 men, 1,311 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 573
| Here: | 15.5% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 227
| Here: | 12.8% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 545
| Here: | 29.9% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |