Montague is a very small township located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 3,826 people and just one neighborhood, Montague is the 357th largest community in New Jersey.
Montague is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Montague is a township of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Montague who work in sales jobs (12.23%), teaching (10.95%), and healthcare (7.89%).
Also of interest is that Montague has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Montague is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Montague a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The township’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Montague has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Montague’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
It is a fairly quiet township 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!) Montague 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. Montague has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Montague than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Montague may be for you.
One downside of living in Montague is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Montague, the average commute to work is 37.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small township, Montague does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Montague are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.22% of adults in Montague have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Montague in 2022 was $48,007, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $192,028 for a family of four. However, Montague contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Montague is a somewhat ethnically-diverse township. The people who call Montague home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montague residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Montague include Irish, German, Italian, Polish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Montague is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
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 Montague, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Montague are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 77.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.4% of America'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, 40.4% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Montague, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (14.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.4%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (6.7%), 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 (42.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.