Bergen County Demographic Maps

[Verily]

For when I'm bored. First up, % white:



Scale is >90/>80/>70/>60/>50/<50

The two towns that are not majority white are Englewood (north) and Palisades Park (south). Both are plurality white (42% in Englewood and 48% in Palisades Park). In Englewood, it's because of a high black and Hispanic population; in Palisades Park, it's the highest concentration of Koreans in the country.

[Verily]

% black. Scale is >35/>25/>15/>5/>2.5/<2.5. As you might be able to guess from the map, over 70% of the black population lives in three municipalities.

[Verily]

% Asian. Scale is >40/>30/>20/>10/>5/<5. Most of the Asian population is Korean with some Japanese, more in the northeast than southeast. Indians are probably most of the Asian population in the northwest and contribute significantly in a few municipalities in the northeast. Chinese immigrants are few. The >40 municipality is Palisades Park, highest Korean concentration in the country.

[Verily]

And this map is useful just for people to orient themselves whenever I refer to a region of Bergen County. Generally, each region is demographically and politically similar.

Northwest: Overwhelmingly white and very wealthy, strongly Republican
Northeast: White with substantial Asian minority, wealthy but less so than Northwest, weakly Republican and trending Democrat
Upper Central: White with mixed minorities, wealthy, weakly Democrat
Lower Central: Plurality white with large black and Hispanic populations, poorest areas of the county, strongly Democrat
Southeast: White with very large Asian minority and medium Hispanic minority, most urban area, strongly Democrat
Southwest: White with some minorities, less wealthy than any region except Lower Central, large Italian-American populations, weakly Republican

[Verily]

% Hispanic. Scale is >35/>25/>15/>5/>2.5/<2.5. The sore-thumb town in the Southwest is Teterboro, which has no Hispanics at all--and a grand total population of 18.

[Jaggerjack]

Cool.

How do you make one of these?

[Verily]

Cool.

How do you make one of these?

I'm just using census data, a blank map I found online, and Paint.

Some of the data is obviously out-of-date; I expect Palisades Park to be majority Asian in the 2010 census, and the Hispanic population is rapidly displacing the black population in Englewood and Teaneck (and to a lesser extent in Hackensack) while the black population moves further north in the Northern Valley, where Tenafly should be around 5% black in 2010. I'd probably need a new scale for Hispanics after the 2010 census, too, because everywhere except Teterboro will be above 2.5%.

[Vasall des Midas]

current estimates from the census bureau or the 2001 census itself?

[Verily]

current estimates from the census bureau or the 2001 census itself?

2000 Census. AFAIK, only total population estimates are made in the interim.

[bgwah]

Cool.

How do you make one of these?

I'm just using census data, a blank map I found online, and Paint.

Some of the data is obviously out-of-date; I expect Palisades Park to be majority Asian in the 2010 census, and the Hispanic population is rapidly displacing the black population in Englewood and Teaneck (and to a lesser extent in Hackensack) while the black population moves further north in the Northern Valley, where Tenafly should be around 5% black in 2010. I'd probably need a new scale for Hispanics after the 2010 census, too, because everywhere except Teterboro will be above 2.5%.

You could also go to the census website, go to American FactFinder, go to data sets, and then go to thematic maps. The census website would then make the maps for you after you specified what you wanted it to show. This may be an easier method. You could also make maps by census tract easily with this method.

Just a friendly suggestion.

[Verily]

Cool.

How do you make one of these?

I'm just using census data, a blank map I found online, and Paint.

Some of the data is obviously out-of-date; I expect Palisades Park to be majority Asian in the 2010 census, and the Hispanic population is rapidly displacing the black population in Englewood and Teaneck (and to a lesser extent in Hackensack) while the black population moves further north in the Northern Valley, where Tenafly should be around 5% black in 2010. I'd probably need a new scale for Hispanics after the 2010 census, too, because everywhere except Teterboro will be above 2.5%.

You could also go to the census website, go to American FactFinder, go to data sets, and then go to thematic maps. The census website would then make the maps for you after you specified what you wanted it to show. This may be an easier method. You could also make maps by census tract easily with this method.

Just a friendly suggestion.

I tried that. Their maps aren't very user-friendly, and the census tracts in Bergen County are about the same size as the towns.

[Vasall des Midas]

current estimates from the census bureau or the 2001 census itself?

2000 Census. AFAIK, only total population estimates are made in the interim.

Just checking... for the town level, there seem to be only total population estimates indeed. There's estimates for racial breakdown on the county level, but that's not going to be much help here.