In addition, Cresskill is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.
Because of many things, Cresskill is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Cresskill really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Cresskill perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
In Cresskill, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.00 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
Despite being a small borough, Cresskill has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.
Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Cresskill. 58.48% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cresskill in 2022 was $70,235, which is upper middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $280,940 for a family of four.
Cresskill is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Cresskill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cresskill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Cresskill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.83% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cresskill include Italian, Irish, German, Israeli, and Russian.
Cresskill also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 42.97%.
The most common language spoken in Cresskill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Spanish.
