Editing Middlesex County, New Jersey (section)

===Indian community===
Middlesex County is prominently known for its significant concentration of [[Indians in the New York City metropolitan region| Indians]]. The growing [[Little India (Edison/Iselin)|Little India]] is a Desi-focused commercial strip in Middlesex County, the U.S. county with the highest concentration of Indians.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/news/2012/11/big_business_in_little_india_c.html|title=Big business in Little India: Commerce flourishes in vibrant ethnic neighborhood|first=Peter|last=Genovese|date=November 16, 2012|website=nj.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.saveur.com/article/Travels/Oak-Tree-Road-Iselin-NJ|title=Eat Street: Oak Tree Road, Iselin, N.J.|website=SAVEUR|date=March 31, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27indianj.html|title=A Place Where Indians, Now New Jerseyans, Thrive|author=Joseph Berger|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 27, 2008 |access-date=August 22, 2016}}</ref> The [[Little India, Edison/Iselin|Oak Tree Road]] strip runs for about one-and-a-half miles through [[Edison, New Jersey|Edison]] and neighboring [[Iselin, New Jersey|Iselin]] in [[Woodbridge Township, New Jersey|Woodbridge Township]], near the area's sprawling [[Chinese in New York City|Chinatown]] and [[Koreans in New York City|Koreatown]], running along [[New Jersey Route 27]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/travel/indo-chinese-restaurants-edison-new-jersey.html|title=Indo-Chinese Food Is Hard to Find, Except in New Jersey|first=David|last=Shaftel|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 9, 2017}}</ref> It is the largest and most diverse [[Desi]] cultural hub in the United States.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/little-india-thrives-in-central-new-jersey-1506340801|title='Little India' Thrives in Central New Jersey|first=Kate|last=King|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=September 25, 2017|via=www.wsj.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2012/06/06/the-ultimate-neighborhood-bank/|title=How Indo-Americans Created The Ultimate Neighborhood Bank|first=Monte|last=Burke|website=Forbes}}</ref> [[Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey|Monroe Township]] in Middlesex County has experienced a particularly rapid growth rate in its [[Indians in the New York City metropolitan region|Indian American]] population, with an estimated 5,943 (13.6%) as of 2017,<ref name=IndiansMonroe>[https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/DP05/0600000US3402347280 DP05: ACS DEMOGRAPHIC AND HOUSING ESTIMATES from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Monroe township, Middlesex County, New Jersey] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200213155409/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/DP05/0600000US3402347280 |date=February 13, 2020 }}, [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed February 11, 2019.</ref> which was 23 times the 256 (0.9%) counted as of the 2000 Census; and [[Diwali]] is celebrated by the township as a [[Hinduism|Hindu]] holiday. [[Carteret, New Jersey|Carteret]]'s [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[Sikh]] community, variously estimated at upwards of 3,000, is the largest concentration of Sikhs in New Jersey.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/15colnj.html|title=Turbans Make Targets, Some Sikhs Find|author=Kevin Coyne|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 15, 2008 |access-date=April 28, 2019}}</ref> In Middlesex County, election [[ballot]]s are printed in English, [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Hindi]], and [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.gov/state/elections/voting-information-vote-by-mail.html|title=State of New Jersey Department of State|publisher=State of New Jersey|access-date=May 29, 2017}}</ref>