Chesilhurst is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 1,546 people and just one neighborhood, Chesilhurst is the 449th largest community in New Jersey.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Chesilhurst is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.86% of the Chesilhurst workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Chesilhurst is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chesilhurst who work in management occupations (12.10%), office and administrative support (9.04%), and sales jobs (7.93%).
Also of interest is that Chesilhurst has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Chesilhurst is worth considering.
One downside of living in Chesilhurst, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.99 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
In Chesilhurst, a lot of people use the subway to get to work every day though Chesilhurst is a relatively small borough. Those that ride the subway are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Chesilhurst rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.09% of adults 25 and older in Chesilhurst have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Chesilhurst in 2022 was $39,558, which is low income relative to New Jersey, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $158,232 for a family of four. However, Chesilhurst contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Chesilhurst is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Chesilhurst home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chesilhurst residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Chesilhurst also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.60% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Chesilhurst include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Chesilhurst is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Chesilhurst are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.5% 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 56.6% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.2%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Chesilhurst, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (14.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report German roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.9%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (65.9%) 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 (19.5%) and 5.1% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.