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Ogdensburg, NJ

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Overview


Ogdensburg is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 2,293 people and just one neighborhood, Ogdensburg is the 415th largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Ogdensburg isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ogdensburg are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ogdensburg is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Ogdensburg who work in office and administrative support (16.76%), sales jobs (12.98%), and management occupations (10.19%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Ogdensburg is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Ogdensburg’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Ogdensburg, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.23 minutes every day commuting to work.

Ogdensburg is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Ogdensburg who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.43% of adults in Ogdensburg have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ogdensburg in 2022 was $46,674, which is lower middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $186,696 for a family of four.

Ogdensburg is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Ogdensburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ogdensburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Ogdensburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.04% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ogdensburg include Italian, Irish, German, English, and Polish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Italian and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Italian ancestry and 22.2% have Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.3% 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 96.7% 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 Ogdensburg are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.7% 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 65.7% 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, 33.3% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.8%), and 19.7% 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 84.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Korean and German/Yiddish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Ogdensburg, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (23.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.2%), and residents who report German roots (15.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.0%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (8.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (89.3%) 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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