|
|
|
|
United
States |
|
New
Jersey |
|
|
|
|
(Pop.
273,643,273) |
|
(Pop.
8,219,529) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Persons
in Household (mean) |
|
2.68
|
|
2.59
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Age
(years) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Under 18 |
|
26.3 |
% |
|
25.3 |
% |
| |
18 to 29 |
|
15.8 |
|
|
14.0 |
|
| |
30 to 49 |
|
30.7 |
|
|
32.2 |
|
| |
50 to 64 |
|
15.1 |
|
|
15.7 |
|
| |
65 to 74 |
|
6.6 |
|
|
6.9 |
|
| |
75 or older |
|
5.5 |
|
|
6.0 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Education
(years formal among age 25+) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Less than high
school graduate |
|
13.1 |
% |
|
12.3 |
% |
| |
High school diploma
or G.E.D. |
|
19.1 |
|
|
20.2 |
|
| |
Some college (incl.
Assoc. deg.) |
|
18.2 |
|
|
15.8 |
|
| |
4 year college
graduate |
|
10.4 |
|
|
12.9 |
|
| |
Masters, doctorate,
or prof. deg. |
|
5.9 |
|
|
7.6 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Household
Income |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Poverty level or
below |
|
12.4 |
% |
|
8.5 |
% |
| |
1.01 to 1.99 times
poverty level |
|
17.3 |
|
|
11.9 |
|
| |
2 times poverty
level or greater |
|
70.4 |
|
|
79.7 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ethnicity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Non-hispanic |
|
87.5 |
% |
|
86.7 |
% |
| |
Hispanic |
|
12.6 |
|
|
13.3 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Racial Identity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
White/Caucasian
|
|
69.1 |
% |
|
66.0 |
% |
| |
Black/African American
|
|
12.1 |
|
|
13.0 |
|
| |
Asian/Pacific Islander
|
|
3.7 |
|
|
5.7 |
|
| |
Other (incl. Nat.
Amer./Alaskan) |
|
0.9 |
|
|
0.4 |
|
| |
Multi-racial
|
|
1.6 |
|
|
1.6 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Religious
Identification/Affiliation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Roman Catholicism
|
|
25.9 |
% |
|
28.6 |
% |
| |
Other Christian
denominations |
|
55.2 |
|
|
48.3 |
|
| |
Judaism |
|
1.5 |
|
|
5.6 |
|
| |
Islam |
|
0.5 |
|
|
1.4 |
|
| |
Others |
|
1.9 |
|
|
1.1 |
|
| |
Atheism/Secularism/None
|
|
15.0 |
|
|
15.0 |
|
Statistics
for religious identification have been compiled
from survey findings judged to be reliable.
All others, U.S. Bureau of the Census (2000).
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