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.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mays Landing is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mays Landing is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mays Landing who work in office and administrative support (13.95%), teaching (13.32%), and sales jobs (11.80%). 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. Being a small town, Mays Landing does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Mays Landing citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 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.
