Piscataway township, Middlesex County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 30 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Piscataway township: | 29.8% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
61% of Piscataway township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 23801
- Northeast: 6904
- Midwest: 790
- South: 2821
- West: 434
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $163,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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 Piscataway township, New Jersey:
- 3,511 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 61 people in nursing homes
- 17 people in religious group quarters
- 14 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 4 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 2 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,202
- One, attached: 1,555
- Two: 559
- 3 or 4: 1,091
- 5 to 9: 909
- 10 to 19: 1,275
- 20 to 49: 461
- 50 or more: 869
- Mobile homes: 17
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Housing units in Piscataway township with a mortgage: 8,008 (803 second mortgage, 1,024 home equity loan, 45 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,507
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Construction (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Computer specialists (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Piscataway township:
- Italian (11.4%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Polish (5.5%)
- German (5.0%)
- English (2.5%)
- United States or American (2.5%)
- Hungarian (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (29%)
- Philippines (11%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Colombia (6%)
- Korea (4%)
- Taiwan (3%)
- Vietnam (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 19,962 (78%)
- Carpooled: 2,801 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 428 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 41 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 48 (0%)
- Railroad: 1,022 (4%)
- Taxi: 10 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 19 (0%)
- Bicycle: 32 (0%)
- Walked: 700 (3%)
- Other means: 142 (1%)
- Worked at home: 529 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (80%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Piscataway township, New Jersey:
- 3,511 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 61 people in nursing homes
- 17 people in religious group quarters
- 14 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 4 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 2 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
63.7% of residents of Piscataway township speak English at home.
7.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
13.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
13.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other language at home (79% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 46,862- In family households: 41,753 (9,906 male householders, 2,532 female householders)
10,507 spouses, 14,655 children (13,994 natural, 254 adopted, 407 stepchildren), 707 grandchildren, 470 brothers or sisters, 750 parents, 1,386 other relatives, 840 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,109 (1,844 male householders (1,409 living alone)), 2,208 female householders (1,818 living alone)), 1,057 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3,620 (69 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,327 2-persons, 3,144 3-persons, 2,761 4-persons, 1,362 5-persons, 554 6-persons, 290 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,227 1-person, 689 2-persons, 72 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 10 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
8,410 married couples with children.
1,485 single-parent households (321 men, 1,164 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 732
| Here: | 14.7% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 269
| Here: | 10.3% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 657
| Here: | 11.4% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |