Shiloh is a tiny borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 443 people and just one neighborhood, Shiloh is the 505th largest community in New Jersey. Shiloh has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Shiloh is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Shiloh is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shiloh who work in office and administrative support (22.46%), healthcare suport services (12.32%), and management occupations (10.14%).
The borough 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, Shiloh has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shiloh a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small borough, Shiloh doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Shiloh are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.39% of adults in Shiloh having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shiloh in 2022 was $37,918, 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 $151,672 for a family of four. However, Shiloh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shiloh is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Shiloh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shiloh residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Shiloh also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.55% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shiloh include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
In addition, Shiloh has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.61%).
The most common language spoken in Shiloh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Significantly, 18.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% 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 Shiloh are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.1% 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, 42.3% 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 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.9%), and 16.8% 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 87.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Shiloh, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report English roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (5.8%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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 (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.