Woodbridge township, Middlesex County, New Jersey (NJ) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 21 (46% naturalized citizens)
Woodbridge township: | 21.5% |
Whole state: | 17.5% |
67% of Woodbridge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in New Jersey.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 56945
- Northeast: 13192
- Midwest: 982
- South: 2603
- West: 559
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $153,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Woodbridge township, New Jersey:
- 2,640 people in state prisons
- 540 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 160 people in nursing homes
- 35 people in religious group quarters
- 24 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 22,480
- One, attached: 1,215
- Two: 2,565
- 3 or 4: 1,126
- 5 to 9: 1,667
- 10 to 19: 3,305
- 20 to 49: 1,201
- 50 or more: 1,334
- Mobile homes: 400
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,100
Housing units in Woodbridge township with a mortgage: 14,320 (1,374 second mortgage, 1,971 home equity loan, 26 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 7,467
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Construction (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Computer specialists (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Woodbridge township:
- Italian (16.9%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- Polish (9.0%)
- German (6.4%)
- Hungarian (4.0%)
- United States or American (2.5%)
- English (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (33%)
- Philippines (7%)
- Poland (5%)
- Italy (4%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
- Pakistan (3%)
- Portugal (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 36,072 (78%)
- Carpooled: 4,013 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 439 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 28 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 250 (1%)
- Railroad: 3,302 (7%)
- Ferryboat: 13 (0%)
- Taxi: 82 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 51 (0%)
- Walked: 976 (2%)
- Other means: 284 (1%)
- Worked at home: 809 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Woodbridge township, New Jersey:
- 2,640 people in state prisons
- 540 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 160 people in nursing homes
- 35 people in religious group quarters
- 24 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
69.7% of residents of Woodbridge township speak English at home.
8.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
13.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
6.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (70% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
2.5% of residents speak other language at home (64% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 93,785- In family households: 82,817 (20,059 male householders, 5,488 female householders)
20,296 spouses, 29,435 children (27,772 natural, 737 adopted, 926 stepchildren), 1,459 grandchildren, 977 brothers or sisters, 1,556 parents, 1,984 other relatives, 1,563 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 10,968 (3,731 male householders (2,770 living alone)), 5,251 female householders (4,695 living alone)), 1,986 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3,418 (2,782 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 9,274 2-persons, 6,501 3-persons, 5,858 4-persons, 2,517 5-persons, 969 6-persons, 428 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 7,465 1-person, 1,240 2-persons, 202 3-persons, 44 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
16,543 married couples with children.
3,326 single-parent households (746 men, 2,580 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,355
Here: | 14.2% |
New Jersey: | 13.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 491
Here: | 10.1% |
New Jersey: | 13.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,154
Here: | 29.4% |
New Jersey: | 30.1% |