Shamong township, Burlington County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (63% naturalized citizens)
Shamong township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 17.5% |
65% of Shamong township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 866
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 37
- South: 179
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 407
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 6
- Mobile homes: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Shamong township with a mortgage: 139 (0 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 107
- Construction (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Printing and related support activities (9%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Rail transportation (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Food (19%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Printing and related support activities (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (14%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (12%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shamong township:
- German (24.1%)
- United States or American (21.9%)
- Dutch (8.2%)
- Irish (3.5%)
- Italian (2.1%)
- English (1.5%)
- British (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- Venezuela (38%)
- Korea (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 500 (88%)
- Carpooled: 64 (11%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Wood (7%)
2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
91.5% of residents of Shamong township speak English at home.
7.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 17% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,114- In family households: 1,016 (269 male householders, 56 female householders)
282 spouses, 343 children (287 natural, 6 adopted, 50 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 8 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 98 (46 male householders (36 living alone)), 23 female householders (9 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 140 2-persons, 76 3-persons, 47 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 45 1-person, 24 2-persons,
1,657 married couples with children.
157 single-parent households (48 men, 109 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
Here: | 20.1% |
New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 4.9% |
New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
Here: | 29.8% |
New Jersey: | 30.1% |