Mays Landing is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 5,603 people and four associated neighborhoods, Mays Landing is the 295th largest community in New Jersey. Much of the housing stock in Mays Landing was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Mays Landing economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Mays Landing, where the median household income is $83,056.00.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mays Landing is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mays Landing is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mays Landing who work in sales jobs (13.96%), teaching (11.51%), and food service (8.47%). Also of interest is that Mays Landing has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Mays Landing telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.61% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. In Mays Landing, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.84 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, Mays Landing does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Mays Landing who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.93% of adults in Mays Landing have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mays Landing in 2022 was $41,239, 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 $164,956 for a family of four. However, Mays Landing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mays Landing is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mays Landing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mays Landing residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mays Landing also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.00% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mays Landing include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Mays Landing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
