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 4,767 people and just one neighborhood, Estell Manor - Dorothy is the 324th largest community in New Jersey.
Unlike some towns, Estell Manor - Dorothy isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Estell Manor - Dorothy are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Estell Manor - Dorothy is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Estell Manor - Dorothy who work in management occupations (11.06%), healthcare (9.62%), and office and administrative support (9.25%).
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.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Estell Manor - Dorothy has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Estell Manor - Dorothy has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Estell Manor - Dorothy than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Estell Manor - Dorothy may be for you.
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 33.95 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Estell Manor - Dorothy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Estell Manor - Dorothy citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.07% of adults in Estell Manor - Dorothy have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Estell Manor - Dorothy in 2018 was $49,233, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $196,932 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 Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Estell Manor - Dorothy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Estell Manor - Dorothy, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
Our research reveals that 91.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 24.1% have Italian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.3% 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 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a 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 56.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.2%), and 13.0% 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 90.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 (27.6%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (24.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (21.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.2%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (91.1%) 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.
