Food Stamps in Downtown, Jersey City, New Jersey (Neighborhood)

Map of Food Stamps by Tract in Downtown

Food Stamps by Neighborhood in Jersey City

There are 11 neighborhoods in Jersey City. This section compares Downtown to all of the neighborhoods in Jersey City and to those entities that contain or substantially overlap with Downtown.

Definitions

• Food Stamps: formally called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a program to provide monetary assistance to low income households for the purpose of purchasing food

Unlike the other geographical entities detailed on this site, neighborhoods are not recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau. To overcome this we have computed reasonable estimates of the same statistics that are presented for other the entity types. Each statistic is computed as the weighted sum or average of the census tracts or block groups that overlap the neighborhood. A weighted sum is used for counts of people or households, and a weighted average is used for statistics that are themselves some form of average, such as median household income. Census block groups are preferred when the statistic in question is available on the block group level. The weight for a given tract (or block group) is computed as the population of the census tabulation blocks that occupy the intersection between the tract and the neighborhood as a fraction of the total population of the neighborhood.

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