Freehold township, Monmouth County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 11 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Freehold township: | 11.2% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
63% of Freehold township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% 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: 15322
- Northeast: 10723
- Midwest: 606
- South: 918
- West: 172
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $240,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
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 Freehold township, New Jersey:
- 1,055 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 498 people in nursing homes
- 56 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 36 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 20 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 17 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,929
- One, attached: 1,981
- Two: 103
- 3 or 4: 216
- 5 to 9: 804
- 10 to 19: 264
- 20 to 49: 66
- 50 or more: 267
- Mobile homes: 402
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,900
Housing units in Freehold township with a mortgage: 6,585 (649 second mortgage, 892 home equity loan, 53 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,511
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Construction (9%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Freehold township:
- Italian (26.8%)
- Irish (13.8%)
- German (8.1%)
- Polish (7.7%)
- English (4.2%)
- Russian (3.8%)
- United States or American (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (9%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Italy (8%)
- India (7%)
- Poland (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (4%)
- Germany (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 12,070 (79%)
- Carpooled: 1,142 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 961 (6%)
- Subway or elevated: 57 (0%)
- Railroad: 177 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 17 (0%)
- Taxi: 25 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 25 (0%)
- Walked: 104 (1%)
- Other means: 52 (0%)
- Worked at home: 690 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (81%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Freehold township, New Jersey:
- 1,055 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 498 people in nursing homes
- 56 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 36 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 20 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 17 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 3 people in religious group quarters
85.3% of residents of Freehold township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
7.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
3.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (79% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 29,845- In family households: 27,018 (6,857 male householders, 1,492 female householders)
7,224 spouses, 9,953 children (9,368 natural, 232 adopted, 353 stepchildren), 200 grandchildren, 134 brothers or sisters, 371 parents, 417 other relatives, 370 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,827 (940 male householders (759 living alone)), 1,532 female householders (1,403 living alone)), 355 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,692 (1,610 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,124 2-persons, 1,917 3-persons, 2,014 4-persons, 929 5-persons, 311 6-persons, 54 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,162 1-person, 293 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
6,839 married couples with children.
734 single-parent households (162 men, 572 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 309
| Here: | 8.1% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 190
| Here: | 11.3% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 284
| Here: | 25.9% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |