Blairstown township, Warren County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Blairstown township: | 5.2% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
68% of Blairstown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3970
- Northeast: 1121
- Midwest: 84
- South: 201
- West: 67
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $220,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
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
15 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,907
- One, attached: 29
- Two: 117
- 3 or 4: 36
- 5 to 9: 28
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $225,000
Housing units in Blairstown township with a mortgage: 1,059 (117 second mortgage, 193 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 415
- Construction (15%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Secondary school teachers (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Secondary school teachers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blairstown township:
- Italian (20.7%)
- German (17.8%)
- Irish (14.8%)
- English (10.2%)
- United States or American (7.4%)
- Polish (6.9%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (26%)
- Poland (8%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Netherlands (8%)
- Japan (7%)
- India (7%)
- Dominican Republic (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,098 (74%)
- Carpooled: 427 (15%)
- Subway or elevated: 13 (0%)
- Railroad: 49 (2%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 80 (3%)
- Other means: 14 (0%)
- Worked at home: 138 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (80%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
15 people in homes for the mentally ill
91.8% of residents of Blairstown township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (45% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 41% speak English not well).
5.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 38% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,733- In family households: 5,206 (1,321 male householders, 297 female householders)
1,374 spouses, 1,878 children (1,799 natural, 31 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 69 grandchildren, 35 brothers or sisters, 62 parents, 120 other relatives, 50 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 527 (236 male householders (176 living alone)), 169 female householders (137 living alone)), 122 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 15 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 682 2-persons, 340 3-persons, 382 4-persons, 155 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 313 1-person, 74 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 4 5-persons,
1,197 married couples with children.
174 single-parent households (47 men, 127 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 42
| Here: | 5.8% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 48
| Here: | 13.6% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 65
| Here: | 28.9% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |