Sewell is a very small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 3,346 people and ten associated neighborhoods, Sewell is the 370th largest community in New Jersey.Sewell is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sewell is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sewell who work in healthcare (16.78%), management occupations (14.66%), and sales jobs (12.74%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.56% 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. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sewell has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sewell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sewell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sewell may be for you. One downside of living in Sewell is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sewell, the average commute to work is 30.99 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. The population of Sewell is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.68% of adults in Sewell have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Sewell in 2022 was $54,264, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $217,056 for a family of four. The people who call Sewell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sewell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sewell include Italian, Irish, English, German, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Sewell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
