Iselin By the Numbers

Did you ever wonder about Iselin's Stats?

There are great charts and tables and statistics on a site I found called Sperling's Best Places to Live, which you can find HERE. 

Here are some of the numbers; all of this information is directly from that website. For the whole story, check out the Best Places website!

As of 2011, Iselin's population is 16,809 people.

Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 2.47%. 

There are 5,998 households

& the average household size is 2.79 people/household. 

(That feels right; even though I have more than 2 people in my house, 
they aren't home much..lol.)

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The median age is 38.8. (The US median is 36.6.)

(That makes me feel old; 
I'm 10 years older than the average person!)
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54.11% of people in Iselin are married. 7.35% are divorced.

47.90% of people are white, 

7.64% are black, 

38.50% are asian, 

0.13% are native american, 

and 5.83% claim 'Other'.  

8.12% claim hispanic ethnicity.

          Population Density - there are 5,342 people per square mile    compared to the national average of 87 per square mile.  

(I guess you've got to include places like Montana, Texas & Alaska, right?  That must affect the national average.)

The median home cost in Iselin is $263,500. Home appreciation the last year has been -2.01 percent.  The median age of homes in Iselin is 49 years. 

Renters make up 25.97% of the Iselin population. 2.50% of houses and apartments in Iselin are unoccupied (vacancy rate).



--------------------Compared to the rest of the country, Iselin's cost of living is 24.30% Higher than the U.S. average.  (That means it's more expensive to live here.  Are you surprised to hear this?)



--------------------The unemployment rate in Iselin is 8.60 percent (U.S. avg. is 9.10%). Recent job growth ... (statistics show that) Iselin jobs have Decreased by 0.46 percent.  (I have no idea how often the web site updates their stats, but it seems accurate to me.)
Average Commute time is 35 minutes. The National Average is 28 minutes.

Iselin Income and Salaries:   The income per capita is $34,870, which includes all adults and children. The median household income is $82,334. 

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 We do very well in a study on America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime. We are listed in the table of "the 100 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas, as defined by the US Census Bureau.  Generally, MSAs are defined as a central city and its county, and possibly surrounding counties, if a significant portion of the area's population commutes between the counties on a regular basis."  Our "city" is listed in this table as "Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon NJ" - and the great news is that we are Number 2, for being safest!!!  We were just behind Nassau - Suffolk, and we beat out Ventura California, Monmouth-Ocean, Bergen-Passaic, Pittsburgh PA, Syracuse NY, and Hartford CT, among many other nice places.  (It seems to me that maybe our average is helped quite a bit by being lumped together with Hunterdon County?  But it's good, in any case.) 

Iselin averages about 43 inches of rain per year.

(The US average is 37. )

Snowfall averages 24 inches;

The average US city gets 25 inches of snow per year. 

(I'm surprised about that, because some of those cities are in places like Florida and California.  

But I guess they are balanced out by cities like Buffalo!)

The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 111.

On average, there are 205 sunny days per year in Iselin. 

 (That's alot, but I heard somewhere that it's 
ALWAYS sunny in Philadelphia!  LOL.  )

The July high is around 86 degrees. 

(Really?  I'm surprised to read this.  

I'm not sure how accurate that is.)

The January low is about 23. 

 (And I'm not looking forward to THAT at all!)  

All in all, I think Iselin is a really great place to live.