Cliffside Park is a medium-sized borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 25,560 people and six associated neighborhoods, Cliffside Park is the 70th largest community in New Jersey.

Housing costs in Cliffside Park are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New Jersey.

Also of interest is that Cliffside Park has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 14.97% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In Cliffside Park, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.62 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. In addition, the borough is also quite pedestrian-friendly, because many neighborhoods are very dense and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.

Although the majority of commuting trips in the borough are by private automobile, Cliffside Park is somewhat unusual for a borough of its size for having a substantial number of people who use public transportation. For a lot of people, the bus helps to get to and from their jobs every morning, which benefits everyone in the Cliffside Park area by reducing both traffic and air pollution.

The citizens of Cliffside Park are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.31% of adults in Cliffside Park have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cliffside Park in 2022 was $49,434, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $197,736 for a family of four. However, Cliffside Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cliffside Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Cliffside Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cliffside Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Cliffside Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.19% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cliffside Park include Italian, Irish, Russian, Brazilian, and Polish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Cliffside Park's cultural character, accounting for 46.45% of the borough’s population.

The most common language spoken in Cliffside Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.