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Chesilhurst, NJ

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Overview


Chesilhurst is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 1,534 people and just one neighborhood, Chesilhurst is the 449th largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

Chesilhurst is a blue-collar town, with 39.17% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Chesilhurst is a borough of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chesilhurst who work in management occupations (10.97%), office and administrative support (7.98%), and sales jobs (7.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Chesilhurst has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Chesilhurst has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Chesilhurst than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Chesilhurst may be for you.

In Chesilhurst, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.09 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.

Despite being a small borough, Chesilhurst has a lot of people using the subway to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the subway are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.

Demographics

The citizens of Chesilhurst are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.53% of adults in Chesilhurst have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Chesilhurst in 2022 was $36,865, which is low income relative to New Jersey, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,460 for a family of four. However, Chesilhurst contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Chesilhurst is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Chesilhurst home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chesilhurst residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Chesilhurst also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.39% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Chesilhurst include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Portuguese.

The most common language spoken in Chesilhurst is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry and 2.0% have Portuguese ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Chesilhurst are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.4% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 37.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Chesilhurst, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (13.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report German roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (69.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (20.4%) and 5.1% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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