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ROCKAWAY, NEW JERSEY QUICK STATSCounty: Morris
Incorporated: 1894
Elevation: 534 feet
Land Area: 2.09 square miles
Population Density: 2998 people per square mile
Races (City): White Non-Hispanic (82.1%), Hispanic (9.4%), Other race (3.0%), Asian Indian (2.6%), Black (1.4%), Two or more races (1.3%), Filipino (1.1%), Chinese (0.9%), Other Asian (0.8%), Vietnamese (0.8%) (Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Ancestries (City): German (21.0%), Italian (21.0%), Irish (19.8%), Polish (10.2%), English (8.4%), United States (3.0%)
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Wayne, NJ (14.1 miles , pop. 54,069)
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Newark, NJ (20.6 miles , pop. 273,546)
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Manhattan, NY (29.7 miles , pop. 1,537,195)
Nearest cities: White Meadow Lake, NJ (1.1 miles ), Victory Gardens borough, NJ (1.5 miles ), Dover, NJ (1.6 miles ), Wharton borough, NJ (1.9 miles ), Mountain Lakes borough, NJ (2.0 miles ), Lake Telemark, NJ (2.0 miles ), Morris Plains borough, NJ (2.2 miles ), Boonton, NJ (2.3 miles )
Rockaway Compared to State Average: Median household income above state average. Median house value significantly above state average. Black race population percentage above state average. Hispanic race population percentage significantly above state average. Foreign-born population percentage significantly above state average.
ROCKAWAY, NEW JERSEY EDUCATION FACTSHigh school or higher: 89.70%
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 28.70%
Graduate or professional degree: 7.60%
Colleges/Universities with over 2000 Students Nearest to Rockaway:
COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS about 6 miles, RANDOLPH, NJ, Full-time enrollment: 5,202 DREW UNIVERSITY about 11 miles, MADISON, NJ, FT enrollment: 2,133 WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY about 15 miles, WAYNE, NJ, FT enrollment: 8,017 SETON HALL UNIVERSITY about 17 miles, SOUTH ORANGE, NJ, FT enrollment: 7,509 MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY about 17 miles, UPPER MONTCLAIR, NJ, FT enrollment: 10,226 PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE about 18 miles, PATERSON, NJ, FT enrollment: 2,452 KEAN UNIVERSITY about 20 miles, UNION, NJ, FT enrollment: 8,627
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