Deptford township, Gloucester County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Deptford township: | 4.2% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
65% of Deptford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 14744
- Northeast: 8906
- Midwest: 348
- South: 1352
- West: 155
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $87,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
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 Deptford township, New Jersey:
- 451 people in nursing homes
- 42 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 39 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 14 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,743
- One, attached: 617
- Two: 171
- 3 or 4: 206
- 5 to 9: 465
- 10 to 19: 864
- 20 to 49: 167
- 50 or more: 414
Housing units in Deptford township with a mortgage: 5,292 (599 second mortgage, 656 home equity loan, 23 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,132
- Construction (14%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Deptford township:
- Italian (22.6%)
- Irish (21.5%)
- German (13.7%)
- English (5.6%)
- Polish (5.3%)
- United States or American (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (19%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Italy (11%)
- Germany (7%)
- Venezuela (5%)
- South Africa (4%)
- Portugal (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 10,379 (81%)
- Carpooled: 1,515 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 206 (2%)
- Subway or elevated: 133 (1%)
- Railroad: 35 (0%)
- Taxi: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 175 (1%)
- Other means: 110 (1%)
- Worked at home: 206 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Deptford township, New Jersey:
- 451 people in nursing homes
- 42 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 39 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 14 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the mentally ill
93.0% of residents of Deptford township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
3.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (63% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 26,213- In family households: 22,758 (5,355 male householders, 1,747 female householders)
5,506 spouses, 8,141 children (7,658 natural, 115 adopted, 368 stepchildren), 580 grandchildren, 149 brothers or sisters, 261 parents, 472 other relatives, 547 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,455 (1,382 male householders (1,098 living alone)), 1,507 female householders (1,333 living alone)), 566 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 550 (461 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,727 2-persons, 1,671 3-persons, 1,611 4-persons, 734 5-persons, 268 6-persons, 91 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,431 1-person, 373 2-persons, 64 3-persons, 21 4-persons,
4,371 married couples with children.
1,301 single-parent households (388 men, 913 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 517
| Here: | 17.0% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 271
| Here: | 17.3% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 264
| Here: | 22.3% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |