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Estell Manor - Dorothy, NJ

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Overview


Estell Manor - Dorothy is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 4,789 people and just one neighborhood, Estell Manor - Dorothy is the 324th largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

Estell Manor - Dorothy is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Estell Manor - Dorothy is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Estell Manor - Dorothy who work in management occupations (12.76%), office and administrative support (7.39%), and sales jobs (7.34%).

Also of interest is that Estell Manor - Dorothy has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Estell Manor - Dorothy telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.39% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Estell Manor - Dorothy has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Estell Manor - Dorothy a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Estell Manor - Dorothy is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities.

In Estell Manor - Dorothy, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.25 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Estell Manor - Dorothy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Estell Manor - Dorothy citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.09% of adults in Estell Manor - Dorothy have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Estell Manor - Dorothy in 2018 was $46,161, which is lower middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $184,644 for a family of four. However, Estell Manor - Dorothy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Estell Manor - Dorothy is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Estell Manor - Dorothy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Estell Manor - Dorothy residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Estell Manor - Dorothy include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Estell Manor - Dorothy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Italian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Estell Manor - Dorothy are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.6% of U.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, 39.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 89.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Estell Manor - Dorothy, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.1%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (22.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (17.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.8%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (87.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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