Maple Shade is a medium-sized township located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 20,010 people and six associated neighborhoods, Maple Shade is the 100th largest community in New Jersey.Maple Shade is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Maple Shade is a township of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maple Shade who work in office and administrative support (13.52%), management occupations (12.08%), and sales jobs (8.80%). Also of interest is that Maple Shade has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.07% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. The overall education level of Maple Shade citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.19% of adults in Maple Shade have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%. The per capita income in Maple Shade in 2022 was $38,109, 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 $152,436 for a family of four. However, Maple Shade contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Maple Shade is an extremely ethnically-diverse township. The people who call Maple Shade home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maple Shade residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Maple Shade also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.83% of the township’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Maple Shade include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Maple Shade is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
