Editing Iselin, New Jersey (section)

=== South Asian community ===
Iselin hosts one of the region's main centers of [[Indians in the New York City metropolitan area|Indian American]] cultural diversity.<ref>[[Andrew Jacobs (journalist)|Andrew Jacobs]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/nyregion/the-census-a-region-of-enclaves-edison-nj-amid-strip-malls-indian-expansion.html "The Census &ndash; A Region of Enclaves: Edison, N.J.; Amid Strip Malls, Indian Expansion"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 18, 2001. Accessed March 22, 2012. "Although Indians have settled in every part of the state, they have had a remarkable impact on Edison, a 32-square-mile township. The Asian population of Edison, most of it Indian, has grown to 29,000 from 2,200 in 1980. The adjacent hamlet of Iselin, part of Woodbridge Township, has had an even greater increase in its Asian population."</ref> The growing [[Little India (Middlesex County, New Jersey)|Little India]] is a South Asian-focused commercial strip in Middlesex County, the [[U.S. county]] with the highest concentration of [[Indian Americans]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Genovese |first=Peter |date=16 November 2012 |title=Big business in Little India: Commerce flourishes in vibrant ethnic neighborhood |url=https://www.nj.com/news/2012/11/big_business_in_little_india_c.html |website=nj.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Eat Street: Oak Tree Road, Iselin, N.J. |url=https://www.saveur.com/article/Travels/Oak-Tree-Road-Iselin-NJ |website=SAVEUR|date=March 31, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Joseph Berger |title=A Place Where Indians, Now New Jerseyans, Thrive |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 27, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27indianj.html |access-date=August 22, 2016}}</ref> The Oak Tree Road strip runs for about one-and-a-half miles through Iselin and neighboring [[Edison Township, New Jersey|Edison 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 |last=Shaftel |first=David |date=9 March 2017 |title=Indo-Chinese Food Is Hard to Find, Except in New Jersey |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/travel/indo-chinese-restaurants-edison-new-jersey.html }}</ref> The zone is the largest and most diverse [[South Asian]] cultural hub in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last=King |first=Kate |date=25 September 2017 |title='Little India' Thrives in Central New Jersey |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/little-india-thrives-in-central-new-jersey-1506340801 |via=www.wsj.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Burke |first=Monte |title=How Indo-Americans Created The Ultimate Neighborhood Bank |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2012/06/06/the-ultimate-neighborhood-bank/ |website=Forbes}}</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 |title=State of New Jersey Department of State |url=http://www.nj.gov/state/elections/voting-information-vote-by-mail.html |access-date=May 29, 2017 |publisher=State of New Jersey}}</ref> According to the 2017 [[American Community Survey]], 42.6% of Iselin residents identified themselves as being Indian American, the highest percentage for any [[census-designated place]] in the United States.<ref>[https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/DP05/1600000US3434470] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200213094649/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/DP05/1600000US3434470|date=2020-02-13}} Accessed April 28, 2019.</ref>