Where do poor white people in new jersey live? (Toms River: houses, unemployment rate)

[JerseyGirl415]

Originally Posted by jerseygal4u

Wow,Hudson county has a lower median family income than Salem and Cumberland???
Boy was I misinformed.

You would think with Hoboken it would be way higher than that.
What gives?

Hudson is much more urban.

But in a way, I was a bit surprised, too, because Salem and Cumberland are so rural. It seems NJ's kind of backwards compared to the rest of the country's statistics in some ways. Most other states' rural areas are poorer than cities and their outlying areas. But then again, many cities are also home to a lot of people living in poverty.

[Buckeye614]

Originally Posted by EBWick

Sections of Somerset are ghetto and have whites, blacks & hispanics. They just have more trees than most urban areas of NJ.

There are some areas with minorities and more lower-middle class folks but I wouldn't call them actual ghettos in the same way I would Trenton, Newark, Paterson etc.

[sheena12]

Oakland, Wanaque, and Wayne. Not poor, but atypical for Bergen County.

Someone I knew once took me to and area near or in Oakland that was pretty strange. He said the people were "hillbillies."

The homes were small and run down. That was in the 1980s though.

[JerseyGirl415]

Originally Posted by sheena12

Oakland, Wanaque, and Wayne. Not poor, but atypical for Bergen County.

Someone I knew once took me to and area near or in Oakland that was pretty strange. He said the people were "hillbillies."

The homes were small and run down. That was in the 1980s though.

Wanaque and Wayne are in Passaic County.

I don't go to Bergen and Passaic Counties often, so I don't know much about the people/towns there.

[Reader_22]

Originally Posted by Buckeye614

I don't know of any poor white communities around Somerset County. There's not that many poor communities period in this part of the state. The closest poor cities are Trenton, Plainfield, and possibly parts of Somerville and those areas are predominantly black and Latino.

What about Bound Brook?

[T_Sporano]

Originally Posted by Reader_22

What about Bound Brook?

Bound Brook is a town of both haves and have nots.

[stoicsigma]

new egypt, 1/2 of toms river, whitting, jackson to some extent

the south of the state is pretty hillbilly compared to CNJ/NNJ

[HubCityMadMan]

Originally Posted by T_Sporano

Bound Brook is a town of both haves and have nots.

Bound Brook is a dump.

[Mountainbluebear]

Trenton is a mix of whites, Wayne is poor and white, Toms River is divided as well.

[Adventurer12]

NJ is an expensive state, the poor would not be considered poor by other states standards, its all relative.