City of Orange township, Essex County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 31 (39% naturalized citizens)
City of Orange township: | 31.3% |
Whole state: | 17.5% |
57% of City of Orange township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 81% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15504
- Northeast: 2163
- Midwest: 206
- South: 4204
- West: 109
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $78,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
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 City of Orange township, New Jersey:
- 324 people in nursing homes
- 76 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in religious group quarters
- 13 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 9 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,314
- One, attached: 351
- Two: 2,083
- 3 or 4: 1,971
- 5 to 9: 652
- 10 to 19: 789
- 20 to 49: 2,195
- 50 or more: 2,310
Housing units in City of Orange township with a mortgage: 1,380 (167 second mortgage, 170 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 435
- Construction (10%)
- Health care (7%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in City of Orange township:
- Haitian (11.9%)
- Jamaican (4.5%)
- United States or American (3.9%)
- Italian (3.3%)
- Guyanese (2.9%)
- African (2.8%)
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Haiti (27%)
- Jamaica (12%)
- Guyana (9%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (8%)
- El Salvador (6%)
- Peru (5%)
- Nigeria (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,033 (53%)
- Carpooled: 2,224 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2,253 (17%)
- Subway or elevated: 76 (1%)
- Railroad: 670 (5%)
- Ferryboat: 5 (0%)
- Taxi: 136 (1%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 668 (5%)
- Other means: 115 (1%)
- Worked at home: 185 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
People in group quarters in City of Orange township, New Jersey:
- 324 people in nursing homes
- 76 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in religious group quarters
- 13 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 9 people in unknown juvenile institutions
72.6% of residents of City of Orange township speak English at home.
12.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (35% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 31% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
13.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (51% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (28% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other language at home (75% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 32,409- In family households: 27,366 (3,759 male householders, 3,954 female householders)
3,724 spouses, 10,647 children (9,956 natural, 196 adopted, 495 stepchildren), 1,352 grandchildren, 856 brothers or sisters, 497 parents, 1,363 other relatives, 1,214 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,043 (1,735 male householders (1,468 living alone)), 2,443 female householders (2,127 living alone)), 865 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 459 (330 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,465 2-persons, 1,929 3-persons, 1,524 4-persons, 916 5-persons, 508 6-persons, 371 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,595 1-person, 469 2-persons, 60 3-persons, 32 4-persons, 22 5-persons,
3,484 married couples with children.
3,681 single-parent households (592 men, 3,089 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 643
Here: | 16.5% |
New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 498
Here: | 23.3% |
New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 525
Here: | 30.1% |
New Jersey: | 30.1% |