Plumsted township, Ocean County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Plumsted township: | 4.6% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
64% of Plumsted township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 26% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5335
- Northeast: 1078
- Midwest: 127
- South: 255
- West: 103
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $350,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,172
- One, attached: 46
- Two: 108
- 3 or 4: 44
- 5 to 9: 24
- 10 to 19: 14
- Mobile homes: 220
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,300
Housing units in Plumsted township with a mortgage: 1,404 (84 second mortgage, 293 home equity loan, 19 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 395
- Construction (15%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plumsted township:
- Italian (17.3%)
- German (16.7%)
- Irish (16.2%)
- English (10.2%)
- United States or American (6.2%)
- Polish (5.3%)
- Hungarian (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (22%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Italy (9%)
- Colombia (9%)
- Honduras (8%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (5%)
- Turkey (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,093 (86%)
- Carpooled: 280 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 36 (1%)
- Other means: 45 (1%)
- Worked at home: 122 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Utility gas (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Wood (3%)
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
92.7% of residents of Plumsted township speak English at home.
3.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 32% speak English not well).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,267- In family households: 6,704 (1,612 male householders, 404 female householders)
1,707 spouses, 2,513 children (2,374 natural, 58 adopted, 81 stepchildren), 105 grandchildren, 76 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 66 other relatives, 185 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 563 (218 male householders (166 living alone)), 263 female householders (231 living alone)), 82 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 685 2-persons, 488 3-persons, 505 4-persons, 244 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 36 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 397 1-person, 84 2-persons,
1,631 married couples with children.
285 single-parent households (70 men, 215 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 60
| Here: | 5.6% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 3.0% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 62
| Here: | 27.1% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |