Morris County Library > Reference > Local Statistics
Census 2010
next data release will be July 2011
- County redistricting data Feb 2011
- state demographic profile May 2011
- Morris municipal demographic profiles May 2011
- Morris demographic profile May 2011
County fact sheets, NJ Dept Labor
Morris County Databook, Dept Planning & Development, Oct 2010
County Economic development profile
Population information:
match your statistics to your project.
Official reports (to state or federal government) or grant applications are best filed with official statistics from US Bureau of the Census or the State Data Center. For unofficial use (marketing study, homework, etc) you may be able to use proprietary data, developed by non-governmental businesses or agencies.
Samples here at the library include the SRDS Lifestyle Market Analyst volume or the CACI "Sourcebook of Zip Code Demographics." If you are investing money in an enterprise based on proprietary statistics, be sure you know how the numbers were developed and the possibility for error. The best of the private source numbers firms is probably Global Insight (formerly Chase/Wharton, DRI-WEFA, now Global Insight)
MORRIS COUNTY
Begin with the County Planning Board's 2007 State of the County.
POPULATION POST-CENSUS
Census 2010: (ages, race/ethnicity, household and family size and income, educational level, occupation, housing ownership and costs, commuting time to work, languages spoken at home, degree of disability of the population--available down to sub-town level). See Censusscope for charts, maps, graphs and rankings of Census 2000 data. Also from the Census Bureau: "The American Community Survey is a new nationwide survey designed to
provide communities a fresh look at how they are changing. ..." and Subjects A-Z (Aging/elderly population, Asian businesses, Computer Use and Ownership, etc.) See also QuickFind, Morris County, from the Census Bureau.
From the state of New Jersey see Labor Market Information, A to Z.
See state and county projections, 1990-2028 for race, sex, age and Hispanic origin.
In NJ several of the county planning boards prepare long range population projections. See each county web, look for planning office. See, for example, Hunterdon County.
EMPLOYMENT
See Regional Community Factbooks, NJ Dept Labor, and Quarterly Workforce Employment Indicators, from US Bureau of the Census, in cooperation with NJ Dept of Labor.
VITAL RECORDS
Births and deaths are reported from hospitals to municipal registrars and the state Dept of Health, Center for Public Health Statistics. Within each county, for each town: births, 1998-2005. New Jersey State Health Assessment Data (NJSHAD) is an interactive tool that provides users with customized tables and maps of New Jersey health data.
CONSTRUCTION
The NJ Department of Labor publishes building permit data for the towns of NJ. Reports are by town, and county totals: number of units, single and multifamily, and value of construction.
CRIME
NJ State Police publish the Uniform Crime Report which provides statistics down to the municipal level. The parallel federal report Crime in the US comes from the FBI.
HEALTH
See NJ Communicable Disease statistics and state Center for Health Statistics (includes vitals--birth, death, divorce--risk behavior, injury reporting, etc.) For history, NJ Health Statistics, 1877-2000, a collection of reports.
PETS
Pet licenses issued are reported by municipal health departments to the state Department of Health.
US Statistical Abstract, 2010-2011 gives national pet ownership figures (dog, cat, bird, horse) for 2009 taken from the American Veterinary Medical Assn US Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook
RECREATION US Statistical Abstracts (Bureau of the Census) provides information on leisure activities and sports participation and expenditures.
INCOME
See SRDS Newspapers volume for table for each state: age range of heads of households, income range of households, and major consumer groups (food, automotive, etc.) of household expenditure. The NJ Dept of the Treasury statistics of income, drawn from tax returns, lags by a few years. 2008 is the latest, published in the fall of 2010. See also federal income statistics (includes poverty measures). Economic indicators from the state Dept of Labor includes new vehicle registrations, total registrations, employment prospects by areas of employment, hospitality, construction, information payroll, etc. See also Regional Community Factbooks
HOME SALES
Morris County Tax Board reports ownership, last sale price, assessment and property rebate (veteran, widow/er), if any. See SR1As for recent sales only. For sales outside of Morris County, see NJ Assn of Tax Boards. (Note, especially, advanced search choices.) Online, the state Department of the Treasury publishes total sales in towns the past four years, used to determine coefficient of deviation for tax purposes. Class 2 is residential construction. For aggregate value of communities and ratio of assessed:true value of property, see Table of Equalized Valuation, NJ Dept of Treasury.
RELIGION
Under law, the US government cannot ask people about their religions, so the private sector is the source for this data. See Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), but see also
methodology. Significantly for Morris County, Jewish and Islamic bodies and adherents are estimated.
YOUTH
NJ school districts are required by code to prepare five-year enrollment projections of grades K-12 and special education. Ask district administration for latest projection set. These figures will not include charter, private or parochial school figures. The Department of Education posts past enrollments by district and program.
Contact us if you have any questions about NJ data
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