Mays Landing is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 5,603 people and four associated neighborhoods, Mays Landing is the 295th largest community in New Jersey.
Also of interest is that Mays Landing has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Mays Landing is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mays Landing, the average commute to work is 30.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Mays Landing is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Mays Landing is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 35.13% of adults in Mays Landing have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mays Landing in 2022 was $44,227, which is lower middle income relative to New Jersey, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $176,908 for a family of four. However, Mays Landing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mays Landing is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mays Landing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mays Landing residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mays Landing also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.93% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mays Landing include Irish, Italian, German, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Mays Landing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.