"just out of curiosity, what percentage of NJ residents lives outside of the "urban areas".
less than 20% is my guess.
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You guessed wrong.
New Jersey has a population of approximately 8,717,925. 20% of that would be 1,743,585.
The breakdown by county is as follows. The major urban area with population is included in parenthesis after the applicable county.
**Atlantic County 271,015 (Atlantic City - 40,580)
**Bergen County 902,561 (Hackensack - 43,681)
*Burlington County 450,743
***Camden County 518,249 (Camden City - 79,948)
*Cape May County 99,286
*Cumberland County 153,252
***Essex County 791,057 (City of Newark - 280,451)
**Gloucester County 276,910 (Gloucester City - 11,608)
***Hudson County 603,521 (Jersey City - 240,055)
*Hunterdon County 130,404
***Mercer County 366,256 (Trenton - 85,403)
**Middlesex County 789,516 (New Brunswick - 48,573)
*Monmouth County 635,952
*Morris County 490,593
*Ocean County 558,341
***Passaic County 499,060 (Paterson - 150,869)
*Salem County 66,346
*Somerset County 319,900
*Sussex County 153,130
**Union County 531,457 (Elizabeth - 124,724)
*Warren County 110,376
The number of people living in primarily rural or rural/ suburban counties with no major urban areas * is 3,168,323 (approx 36%)
The number of people living in primarily rural or rural/ suburban counties but also including a moderate urban area ** is 2,771,459 (approx 32%)
The number of people living in counties with significant urban areas *** is 2,778,143 (approx 32%)
... The number of people living in primarily rural or rural/ suburban counties but also including a moderate urban area ** is 2,771,459 (approx 32%)
I used to live in Union County. To call it rural would be an absolute stretch. Suburban, maybe, but not rural or rural/suburban. Leave one Union County city and you enter another. It is wall to wall small cities -- difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends except for the city limits signs.
Imagine. Stand watie wrong about something. Who'da thunk it?
i'd guess that those in "suburban" areas are what i think of (as a "small town dweller"-the town i actually reside in has about 600 people)as city, too.
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