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Vineland, NJ

Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ
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Vineland, NJ

Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ
gross metro product
$7.5B
population
151.0K
median household income
$54,243
median home price
$184,000
cost of living
2% below nat'l avg
college attainment
18.1%
net migration
-120 (year: 2018)
unemployment
5.5%
major industries
Health care, Agriculture
job growth
0.5% (year: 2018)
As of October 2019
Vineland is known to be where Thomas Bramwell Welch founded Welch's Grape Juice, and purchased the locally-grown grapes to make the nationally known brand of juice. Vineland is also home to the only remaining drive-in theater in New Jersey, The Delsea Drive-In. Formerly the poultry capital of the United States, much of the nation's supply of chickens originated from the area. Vineland Poultry Laboratories, now Lohman Animal Health, was started by Arthur Goldhaft. Goldhaft is credited with putting a chicken in every pot
after developing the fowl pox chicken vaccine that saved millions of chickens from death.
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On forbes lists
#186
In Cost of Doing Business
#143
In Job Growth
#181
In Education
By The Numbers
EmploymentHousingEducationQuality of Life
Job Growth
0.5% (year: 2018)
Projected Annual Job Growth
0.9%
Unemployment
5.5%
Median Household Income
$54,243
Household Income Growth
2.8%
High-Tech Employment
0.5%
  • Data is for the metro area
  • Sources: Moody's Analytics; Sperling's BestPlaces; U.S. Census.
  • Numbers as of October 2019


  • a - Value of 100 means that a family with the median income has exactly enough income to qualify for a typical mortgage on a median-priced single-family home. An index above 100 signifies that the family has surplus income.

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