Mount Olive township, Morris County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Olive township: | 3.2% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
59% of Mount Olive township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 30% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 24% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3416
- Northeast: 6341
- Midwest: 141
- South: 530
- West: 115
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Mount Olive township, New Jersey:
- 21 people in nursing homes
- 14 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 11 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,784
- One, attached: 514
- Two: 29
- 3 or 4: 199
- 5 to 9: 92
- 10 to 19: 11
- Mobile homes: 383
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,800
Housing units in Mount Olive township with a mortgage: 2,437 (256 second mortgage, 339 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 447
- Construction (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Olive township:
- Irish (17.6%)
- German (16.0%)
- Italian (14.5%)
- United States or American (7.2%)
- Polish (5.1%)
- English (3.7%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Jamaica (9%)
- Poland (8%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Philippines (6%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Colombia (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,205 (79%)
- Carpooled: 648 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 241 (5%)
- Subway or elevated: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (1%)
- Other means: 22 (0%)
- Worked at home: 160 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (39%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (39%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (6%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Mount Olive township, New Jersey:
- 21 people in nursing homes
- 14 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 11 people in homes for the mentally ill
88.7% of residents of Mount Olive township speak English at home.
6.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
3.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 59% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,464- In family households: 10,270 (2,348 male householders, 707 female householders)
2,573 spouses, 3,912 children (3,526 natural, 113 adopted, 273 stepchildren), 186 grandchildren, 59 brothers or sisters, 62 parents, 221 other relatives, 202 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,194 (496 male householders (377 living alone)), 429 female householders (319 living alone)), 269 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 31 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,091 2-persons, 628 3-persons, 755 4-persons, 352 5-persons, 178 6-persons, 51 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 696 1-person, 195 2-persons, 34 3-persons,
5,576 married couples with children.
817 single-parent households (242 men, 575 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
| Here: | 2.6% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 67
| Here: | 8.8% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 102
| Here: | 30.5% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |