Union township, Union County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 25 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 24.6% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
66% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 32312
- Northeast: 4880
- Midwest: 425
- South: 2146
- West: 206
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $172,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
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
People in group quarters in Union township, New Jersey:
- 1,072 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 331 people in nursing homes
- 15 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 13,560
- One, attached: 723
- Two: 2,766
- 3 or 4: 1,252
- 5 to 9: 353
- 10 to 19: 280
- 20 to 49: 136
- 50 or more: 865
- Mobile homes: 66
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 8,243 (777 second mortgage, 1,232 home equity loan, 40 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,744
- Construction (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Social assistance (2%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- Italian (17.2%)
- Polish (8.1%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Portuguese (7.2%)
- German (6.9%)
- United States or American (3.3%)
- Haitian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Portugal (14%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Poland (7%)
- Haiti (6%)
- India (5%)
- Italy (5%)
- Colombia (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 20,023 (78%)
- Carpooled: 2,298 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,014 (4%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 15 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 134 (1%)
- Railroad: 539 (2%)
- Ferryboat: 13 (0%)
- Taxi: 51 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 89 (0%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 950 (4%)
- Other means: 63 (0%)
- Worked at home: 507 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Union township, New Jersey:
- 1,072 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 331 people in nursing homes
- 15 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 6 people in other group homes
66.7% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
8.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
18.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
4.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (66% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak other language at home (82% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 52,974- In family households: 46,896 (10,538 male householders, 3,670 female householders)
11,153 spouses, 17,180 children (16,415 natural, 256 adopted, 509 stepchildren), 797 grandchildren, 610 brothers or sisters, 891 parents, 1,345 other relatives, 712 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 6,078 (1,892 male householders (1,486 living alone)), 3,431 female householders (3,162 living alone)), 755 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,431 (398 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 5,109 2-persons, 3,369 3-persons, 3,323 4-persons, 1,526 5-persons, 573 6-persons, 308 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 4,648 1-person, 560 2-persons, 109 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
9,195 married couples with children.
1,844 single-parent households (338 men, 1,506 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 800
| Here: | 14.0% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 354
| Here: | 11.4% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 916
| Here: | 26.1% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |