Editing East Orange, New Jersey (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1870= 4315
|1880= 8349
|1890= 13282
|1900= 21506
|1910= 34371
|1920= 50710
|1930= 68020
|1940= 68945
|1950= 79340
|1960= 77259
|1970= 75471
|1980= 77878
|1990= 73552
|2000= 69824
|2010= 64270
|2020= 69612
| estimate=71850
| estyear=2024
| estref=<ref name=Census2020/><ref name=ANNRNK/><ref name=PopEst>[https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-2024/mcds/totals/SUB-MCD-EST2024-POP-34.xlsx Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Minor Civil Divisions in New Jersey: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2024], [[United States Census Bureau]], released May 2025. Accessed May 18, 2025.</ref>
|footnote=Population sources:<small><br/>1870–1920<ref>[https://dspace.njstatelib.org/xmlui/handle/10929/25218?show=full ''Compendium of censuses 1726–1905: together with the tabulated returns of 1905''], [[New Jersey Department of State]], 1906. Accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> 1870<ref>Raum, John O. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5qZ4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245 ''The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1''], pp. 245-6, J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed October 9, 2013. "East Orange township was formed from part of the town of Orange, March 4th, 1863, and in 1870 contained a population of 4,315."</ref><ref>Staff. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gNwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA259 ''A compendium of the ninth census, 1870''], p. 259. [[United States Census Bureau]], 1872. Accessed October 9, 2013.</ref><br/>1870–1890<ref>[[Rollin D. Salisbury|Salisbury, Rollin D.]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=B07ANeeTWXAC&pg=RA1-PA157 ''The Physical Geography of New Jersey: Volume IV. of the Final Report of the State Geologist''], p. 154. [[Trenton, New Jersey]], The John L. Murphy Publishing Company, 1898. Accessed May 24, 2012.</ref> 1880–1890<ref>Porter, Robert Percival. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8gUkQkJdLpsC&pg=PA98 ''Preliminary Results as Contained in the Eleventh Census Bulletins: Volume III – 51 to 75''], p. 98. [[United States Census Bureau]], 1890. Accessed October 9, 2013.</ref><br/>1890–1910<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=T9HrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA336 ''Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910: Population by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions, 1910, 1900, 1890''], [[United States Census Bureau]], p. 336. Accessed October 9, 2013. Population for 1890 is listed in footnote 11.</ref> 1900–1930<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kifRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA710 ''Fifteenth Census of the United States : 1930 – Population Volume I''], [[United States Census Bureau]], p. 710. Accessed December 17, 2011.</ref><br/>1940–2000<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/labor/labormarketinformation/assets/PDFs/census/2kpub/njsdcp3.pdf#page=27 Table 6: New Jersey Resident Population by Municipality: 1940 - 2000], Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network, August 2001. Accessed May 1, 2023.</ref> 2000<ref name=Census2000 /><ref name=Census2000SF1 /><br>2010<ref name=Census2010>[https://archive.today/20200212100850/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/0600000US3401319390 DP-1 – Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for East Orange city, Essex County, New Jersey], [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed December 17, 2011.</ref><ref name=LWD2010>[http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/lpa/census/2010/dp/dp1_ess/eastorange1.pdf Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for East Orange city] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506173336/http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/lpa/census/2010/dp/dp1_ess/eastorange1.pdf|date=May 6, 2012 }}, [[New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development]]. Accessed December 17, 2011.</ref><ref name=Census2010XLS /> 2020<ref name=Census2020>[https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/eastorangecitynewjersey QuickFacts East Orange city, New Jersey], [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed December 15, 2022.</ref><ref name=LWD2020>[https://www.nj.gov/labor/labormarketinformation/assets/PDFs/census/2020/2020%20pl94%20Tables/2020_Mun/MCD%200_All.pdf Total Population: Census 2010 - Census 2020 New Jersey Municipalities], [[New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development]]. Accessed December 1, 2022.</ref></small>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''East Orange city, New Jersey – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 1990<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Jersey: 1990 |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cp-1/cp-1-32-1.pdf |access-date=June 20, 2024}}</ref>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – East Orange city, New Jersey|url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US3419390&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=January 26, 2024}}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – East Orange city, New Jersey|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=1600000US3419390&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – East Orange city, New Jersey|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=1600000US3419390&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 1990
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|4,596
|1,874
|1,422
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,388
|6.25%
|2.68%
|2.21%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.99%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|65,098
|61,604
|55,702
|style='background: #ffffe6; |54,689
|88.51%
|88.23%
|86.67%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |78.56%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|287
|130
|186
|style='background: #ffffe6; |164
|0.39%
|0.19%
|0.29%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.24%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|449
|294
|436
|style='background: #ffffe6; |501
|0.61%
|0.42%
|0.68%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.72%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|N/A
|37
|29
|style='background: #ffffe6; |6
|N/A
|0.05%
|0.05%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.01%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|141
|288
|335
|style='background: #ffffe6; |570
|0.19%
|0.41%
|0.52%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.82%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|N/A
|2,313
|1,065
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,262
|N/A
|3.31%
|1.66%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.69%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|2,981
|3,284
|5,095
|style='background: #ffffe6; |9,032
|4.05%
|4.70%
|7.93%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |12.97%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''73,552'''
|'''69,824'''
|'''64,270'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''69,612'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

===2010 census===
The [[2010 United States census]] counted 64,270 people, 24,945 households, and 14,742 families in the city. The [[population density]] was 16,377.1 per square mile (6,323.2/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 28,803 housing units at an average density of 7,339.5 per square mile (2,833.8/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup was 4.13% (2,657) [[White (U.S. census)|White]], 88.51% (56,887) [[Black (U.S. census)|Black or African American]], 0.39% (248) [[Native American (U.S. census)|Native American]], 0.72% (465) [[Asian (U.S. census)|Asian]], 0.06% (38) [[Pacific Islander (U.S. census)|Pacific Islander]], 3.69% (2,370) from [[Race and ethnicity in the United States census#Race|other races]], and 2.50% (1,605) from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. census)|Hispanic or Latino]] of any race were 7.93% (5,095) of the population.<ref name=Census2010/>

Of the 24,945 households, 29.0% had children under the age of 18; 23.3% were married couples living together; 29.0% had a female householder with no husband present and 40.9% were non-families. Of all households, 35.8% were made up of individuals and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.33.<ref name=Census2010/>

25.7% of the population were under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35.0 years. For every 100 females, the population had 81.2 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 75.4 males.<ref name=Census2010/>

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 [[American Community Survey]] showed that (in 2010 [[inflation adjustment|inflation-adjusted]] dollars) [[median household income]] was $40,358 (with a [[margin of error]] of ± $1,873) and the median family income was $50,995 (± $2,877). Males had a median income of $38,642 (± $1,851) versus $39,843 (± $2,187) for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $20,298 (± $746). About 17.8% of families and 21.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.5% of those under age 18 and 16.4% of those age 65 or over.<ref>[https://archive.today/20200212083944/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/10_5YR/DP03/0600000US3401319390 DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics from the 2006–2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for East Orange city, Essex County, New Jersey], [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed March 8, 2012.</ref>

===2000 census===
As of the [[2000 United States census]]<ref name="GR2" /> there were 69,824 people, 26,024 households, and 16,082 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|17,776.6|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 28,485 housing units at an average density of {{convert|7,252.0|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 89.46% [[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]], 3.84% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.25% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.43% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.07% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 2.14% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 3.80% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 4.70% of the population.<ref name=Census2000>[http://censtats.census.gov/data/NJ/1603419390.pdf Census 2000 Profiles of Demographic / Social / Economic / Housing Characteristics for East Orange city, New Jersey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529062726/http://censtats.census.gov/data/NJ/1603419390.pdf |date=May 29, 2012 }}, [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed September 19, 2012.</ref><ref name=Census2000SF1>[https://archive.today/20200212092416/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/00_SF1/DP1/0600000US3401319390 DP-1: Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 – Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for East Orange city, Essex County, New Jersey], [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed September 19, 2012.</ref>

[[File:Public Playgrounds in East Orange, New Jersey (1908).jpeg|thumb|right|Public playgrounds in East Orange, 1908]]
[[File:Apartment building, East Orange.jpg|thumb|right|A pre-WWII apartment on South Munn Avenue in East Orange.]]
There were 26,024 households, out of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.0% were married couples living together, 28.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.2% were non-families. 33.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.37.<ref name=Census2000 /><ref name=Census2000SF1 />

In the city the population was spread out, with 28.1% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 74.7 males.<ref name=Census2000 /><ref name=Census2000SF1 />

The median income for a household in the city was $32,346, and the median income for a family was $38,562. Males had a median income of $31,905 versus $30,268 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $16,488. About 15.9% of families and 19.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.7% of those under age 18 and 14.0% of those ages 65 or over.<ref name=Census2000 /><ref name=Census2000SF1 />

As part of the 2000 Census, 89.46% of East Orange's residents identified themselves as being [[Black people|Black]] or [[African American]]. This was one of the highest percentages of African American and Caribbean American people in the United States. Migrants from [[Jamaica]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Guyana]], [[Haiti]] and other smaller Caribbean Islands have a huge presence, and East Orange has the second-highest in New Jersey (behind [[Lawnside, New Jersey|Lawnside]], at 93.6%) of all places with 1,000 or more residents identifying Black American ancestry. East Orange also has a large Haitian American community, with 2,852 persons claiming Haitian ancestry in the 2000 Census.<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/African-American.html African American Communities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317184700/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/African-American.html |date=March 17, 2015 }}, [[EPodunk]]. Accessed June 28, 2006.</ref>

Although still a small percentage of total residents, [[Orange, New Jersey|Orange]] and East Orange have the largest concentrations of [[Guyanese Americans]] in the country. In the 2000 Census, 2.5% of East Orange residents identified as being of Guyanese ancestry. While Queens and [[Brooklyn]] had larger populations in terms of raw numbers, Orange (with 2.9%) and East Orange had the highest percentage of people of Guyanese ancestry of all places in the United States with at least 1,000 people identifying their ancestry.<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Guyanese.html Guyanese Communities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713035420/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Guyanese.html |date=July 13, 2015 }}, [[EPodunk]]. Accessed August 21, 2006.</ref>