Monroe township, Gloucester County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (38% naturalized citizens)
Monroe township: | 0.0% |
Whole state: | 17.5% |
67% of Monroe township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 36% 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: 3999
- Northeast: 107
- Midwest: 336
- South: 379
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Monroe township, New Jersey:
- 146 people in nursing homes
- 24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 10 people in other group homes
- 8 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,604
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 14
- Mobile homes: 208
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Monroe township with a mortgage: 883 (103 second mortgage, 176 home equity loan, 12 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 357
- Construction (24%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Health care (30%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Radio, TV, and computer stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Utilities (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Electricians (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (12%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Monroe township:
- German (52.1%)
- United States or American (19.0%)
- English (8.0%)
- Irish (4.6%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,186 (87%)
- Carpooled: 244 (10%)
- Walked: 22 (1%)
- Worked at home: 47 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Monroe township, New Jersey:
- 146 people in nursing homes
- 24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 10 people in other group homes
- 8 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
97.4% of residents of Monroe township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,895- In family households: 4,445 (1,249 male householders, 162 female householders)
1,276 spouses, 1,646 children (1,507 natural, 19 adopted, 120 stepchildren), 50 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 10 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 450 (209 male householders (152 living alone)), 151 female householders (146 living alone)), 90 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 579 2-persons, 309 3-persons, 316 4-persons, 141 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 298 1-person, 49 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
5,291 married couples with children.
1,396 single-parent households (353 men, 1,043 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 243
Here: | 38.4% |
New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
Here: | 11.3% |
New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
New Jersey: | 30.1% |