Brick township, Ocean County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Brick township: | 0.0% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
66% of Brick township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2577
- Northeast: 82
- Midwest: 237
- South: 65
- West: 37
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Brick township, New Jersey:
- 538 people in nursing homes
- 100 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 36 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 10 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,351
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 206
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,400
Housing units in Brick township with a mortgage: 560 (33 second mortgage, 95 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 292
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brick township:
- German (24.2%)
- French (except Basque) (14.1%)
- Polish (10.4%)
- English (9.0%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- United States or American (6.0%)
- Swedish (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (23%)
- Other Northern Europe (20%)
- Germany (17%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (7%)
- Japan (7%)
- Philippines (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,001 (79%)
- Carpooled: 182 (14%)
- Ferryboat: 2 (0%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (2%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 53 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (5%)
People in group quarters in Brick township, New Jersey:
- 538 people in nursing homes
- 100 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 36 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 10 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
97.9% of residents of Brick township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,014- In family households: 2,596 (754 male householders, 114 female householders)
785 spouses, 855 children (786 natural, 40 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 13 other relatives, 44 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 418 (196 male householders (160 living alone)), 164 female householders (146 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 22 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 420 2-persons, 174 3-persons, 179 4-persons, 75 5-persons, 18 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 306 1-person, 45 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 1 5-persons,
13,862 married couples with children.
3,070 single-parent households (691 men, 2,379 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 58
| Here: | 17.3% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 2.1% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 16.7% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |
