Vincentown is a tiny town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 535 people and five associated neighborhoods, Vincentown is the 498th largest community in New Jersey. Vincentown has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Housing costs in Vincentown are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New Jersey.
Vincentown is a military town: the armed forces employs 7.60% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Retail and Construction are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 27.89% and 18.33% of the civilian workforce respectively.
Also of interest is that Vincentown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Vincentown 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, Vincentown really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Vincentown 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.
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, Vincentown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Vincentown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Vincentown is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Vincentown, the average commute to work is 31.00 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Vincentown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Vincentown is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 38.84% of adults in Vincentown have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Vincentown in 2022 was $58,964, 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 $235,856 for a family of four.
The people who call Vincentown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vincentown residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Vincentown include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Vincentown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.