Gloucester township, Camden County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (64% naturalized citizens)
| Gloucester township: | 4.9% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
63% of Gloucester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 32434
- Northeast: 24134
- Midwest: 1045
- South: 2264
- West: 689
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $111,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
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 Gloucester township, New Jersey:
- 283 people in nursing homes
- 150 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 85 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 62 people in religious group quarters
- 43 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 34 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 30 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in other group homes
- 4 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 13,991
- One, attached: 4,051
- Two: 647
- 3 or 4: 743
- 5 to 9: 1,032
- 10 to 19: 1,367
- 20 to 49: 1,100
- 50 or more: 965
- Mobile homes: 319
Median worth of mobile homes: $74,800
Housing units in Gloucester township with a mortgage: 12,947 (1,209 second mortgage, 1,911 home equity loan, 111 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,019
- Construction (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gloucester township:
- Italian (27.9%)
- Irish (18.6%)
- German (11.6%)
- Polish (6.0%)
- English (4.7%)
- United States or American (3.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (15%)
- Italy (13%)
- India (11%)
- Poland (5%)
- Egypt (4%)
- Jamaica (4%)
- Korea (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 25,737 (80%)
- Carpooled: 3,424 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 552 (2%)
- Subway or elevated: 828 (3%)
- Railroad: 671 (2%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 17 (0%)
- Bicycle: 24 (0%)
- Walked: 241 (1%)
- Other means: 205 (1%)
- Worked at home: 579 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Gloucester township, New Jersey:
- 283 people in nursing homes
- 150 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 85 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 62 people in religious group quarters
- 43 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 34 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 30 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in other group homes
- 4 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
91.8% of residents of Gloucester township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
3.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (64% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 63,602- In family households: 56,050 (12,877 male householders, 4,033 female householders)
13,449 spouses, 21,565 children (19,876 natural, 588 adopted, 1,101 stepchildren), 1,061 grandchildren, 496 brothers or sisters, 543 parents, 963 other relatives, 1,063 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,552 (2,857 male householders (2,122 living alone)), 3,309 female householders (2,789 living alone)), 1,386 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 713 (154 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 5,576 2-persons, 4,398 3-persons, 4,109 4-persons, 1,996 5-persons, 625 6-persons, 206 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 4,911 1-person, 1,142 2-persons, 73 3-persons, 40 4-persons,
12,407 married couples with children.
3,406 single-parent households (895 men, 2,511 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 891
| Here: | 11.4% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 746
| Here: | 16.9% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 679
| Here: | 21.8% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |