Lower Alloways Creek township, Salem County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (79% naturalized citizens)
| Lower Alloways Creek township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 17.5% |
70% of Lower Alloways Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1423
- Northeast: 132
- Midwest: 18
- South: 247
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 697
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 3
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Lower Alloways Creek township with a mortgage: 260 (36 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 167
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (13%)
- Utilities (13%)
- Plastics and rubber products (10%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (26%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Alloways Creek township:
- German (26.8%)
- United States or American (19.5%)
- Irish (14.1%)
- English (13.7%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- Swedish (2.8%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (36%)
- United Kingdom (29%)
- Russia (21%)
- Germany (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 791 (88%)
- Carpooled: 65 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 22 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.4% of residents of Lower Alloways Creek township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 44% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,851- In family households: 1,668 (444 male householders, 109 female householders)
441 spouses, 558 children (529 natural, 16 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 22 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 183 (65 male householders (55 living alone)), 82 female householders (70 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 251 2-persons, 118 3-persons, 118 4-persons, 49 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 16 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
346 married couples with children.
66 single-parent households (21 men, 45 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 10.1% |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 20
| Here: | 17.9% |
| New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 13.6% |
| New Jersey: | 30.1% |