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 7.24% 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 19.34% and 18.61% 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.
Vincentown is a very car-oriented town. 96.55% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Vincentown is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Vincentown has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Vincentown is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Vincentown ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Vincentown, 42.97% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Vincentown in 2022 was $51,790, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $207,160 for a family of four. However, Vincentown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Vincentown is a very ethnically-diverse town. 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 Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Vincentown include Italian, Irish, German, English, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Vincentown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.