Hamburg is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 3,351 people and three associated neighborhoods, Hamburg is the 373rd largest community in New Jersey.Hamburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hamburg is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hamburg who work in sales jobs (15.03%), business and financial occupations (10.42%), and management occupations (10.03%). Also of interest is that Hamburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.94% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. In Hamburg, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.13 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Hamburg 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.The citizens of Hamburg are among the most well-educated in the nation: 40.93% of adults in Hamburg have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Hamburg in 2022 was $53,472, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $213,888 for a family of four. However, Hamburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hamburg is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Hamburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hamburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Hamburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.48% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hamburg include Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and English. Hamburg also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 19.34%. The most common language spoken in Hamburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.
