Netcong is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 3,661 people and just one neighborhood, Netcong is the 368th largest community in New Jersey.
Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Netcong is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Netcong is a borough of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Netcong who work in food service (14.93%), business and financial occupations (14.16%), and office and administrative support (10.19%).
A relatively large number of people in Netcong telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.93% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Netcong is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Netcong citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.19% of adults in Netcong have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Netcong in 2022 was $54,439, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $217,756 for a family of four. However, Netcong contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Netcong is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Netcong home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Netcong residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Netcong also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.05% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Netcong include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, and English.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Netcong's cultural character, accounting for 16.53% of the borough’s population.
The most common language spoken in Netcong is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 22.3% have Italian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Netcong are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 67.7% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.8%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.8%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Netcong, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (22.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (12.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.2%), among others. In addition, 16.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.