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|People QuickFacts||Ocean County||New Jersey|
|Population, 2013 estimate||583,414||8,899,339|
|Population, 2010 (April 1) estimates base||576,565||8,791,909|
|Population, percent change, April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013||1.2%||1.2%|
|Persons under 5 years, percent, 2013||6.8%||6.0%|
|Persons under 18 years, percent, 2013||23.5%||22.7%|
|Persons 65 years and over, percent, 2013||21.7%||14.4%|
|Female persons, percent, 2013||51.9%||51.2%|
|White alone, percent, 2013 (a)||93.0%||73.4%|
|Black or African American alone, percent, 2013 (a)||3.5%||14.7%|
|American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent, 2013 (a)||0.3%||0.6%|
|Asian alone, percent, 2013 (a)||1.9%||9.2%|
|Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent, 2013 (a)||Z||0.1%|
|Two or More Races, percent, 2013||1.3%||2.0%|
|Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2013 (b)||8.8%||18.9%|
|White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2013||85.2%||57.6%|
|Living in same house 1 year & over, percent, 2008-2012||91.1%||90.0%|
|Foreign born persons, percent, 2008-2012||7.9%||20.8%|
|Language other than English spoken at home, pct age 5+, 2008-2012||12.0%||29.6%|
|High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25+, 2008-2012||89.7%||87.9%|
|Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25+, 2008-2012||25.0%||35.4%|
|Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16+, 2008-2012||31.0||30.3|
|Housing units, 2013||279,015||3,578,141|
|Homeownership rate, 2008-2012||81.7%||66.2%|
|Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2008-2012||13.1%||35.9%|
|Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2008-2012||$275,400||$337,900|
|Persons per household, 2008-2012||2.55||2.70|
|Per capita money income in past 12 months (2012 dollars), 2008-2012||$30,397||$35,928|
|Median household income, 2008-2012||$61,038||$71,637|
|Persons below poverty level, percent, 2008-2012||10.2%||9.9%|
|Business QuickFacts||Ocean County||New Jersey|
|Private nonfarm establishments, 2012||11,935||228,2891|
|Private nonfarm employment, 2012||125,765||3,440,4701|
|Private nonfarm employment, percent change, 2011-2012||1.7%||1.9%1|
|Nonemployer establishments, 2012||36,375||620,282|
|Total number of firms, 2007||45,546||781,622|
|Black-owned firms, percent, 2007||2.2%||7.7%|
|American Indian- and Alaska Native-owned firms, percent, 2007||0.3%||0.4%|
|Asian-owned firms, percent, 2007||2.5%||8.7%|
|Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander-owned firms, percent, 2007||F||0.1%|
|Hispanic-owned firms, percent, 2007||3.3%||8.7%|
|Women-owned firms, percent, 2007||25.6%||27.3%|
|Manufacturers shipments, 2007 ($1000)||D||116,608,094|
|Merchant wholesaler sales, 2007 ($1000)||D||233,413,004|
|Retail sales, 2007 ($1000)||7,307,436||124,813,580|
|Retail sales per capita, 2007||$12,922||$14,453|
|Accommodation and food services sales, 2007 ($1000)||703,022||19,993,613|
|Building permits, 2012||1,125||17,939|
|Geography QuickFacts||Ocean County||New Jersey|
|Land area in square miles, 2010||628.78||7,354.22|
|Persons per square mile, 2010||917.0||1,195.5|
|Metropolitan or Micropolitan Statistical Area||New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area|