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Helmetta, NJ

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Overview


Helmetta is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 2,439 people and just one neighborhood, Helmetta is the 404th largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Helmetta isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Helmetta are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Helmetta is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Helmetta who work in management occupations (14.39%), office and administrative support (13.94%), and business and financial occupations (8.11%).

Also of interest is that Helmetta 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 Helmetta telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.82% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Helmetta is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

In Helmetta, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.93 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The education level of Helmetta citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 39.74% of adults in Helmetta have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Helmetta in 2022 was $50,000, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $200,000 for a family of four.

Helmetta is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Helmetta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Helmetta residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Helmetta also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.21% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Helmetta include Irish, German, Italian, Polish, and Egyptian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Helmetta's cultural character, accounting for 15.77% of the borough’s population.

The most common language spoken in Helmetta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86.9% of the neighborhoods in NJ. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 3.3% have Hungarian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Helmetta are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.9% 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 71.7% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 45.4% 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 19.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.6%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 76.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Korean, Arabic and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Helmetta, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (15.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (13.2%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (10.3%), among others. In addition, 15.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (34.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (83.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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