The township has a highly educated workforce 93.5 percent are high school graduates or higher. RWJ Medical School, several data centers, and many national and international companies providing professional, scientific, and technical services are located in the township. Cited was the long and prestigious history of the community and noted also was that 189 buildings on Rutgers the State University campuses are located in Piscataway. The township was named by MONEY magazine in 2008, 20 as one of the best places to live in the United States.
The township has a fair percentage of apartments, townhouses, and condominiums although most housing accommodations are single-family dwellings. The community is ethnically diverse with 24,642 White, 10,254 Black, 104 Native Americans, 12,532 Asian, 1,397 Multi-racial, 4,002 Hispanic (of any race), and 1,553 other.
Piscataway, located in Middlesex County, comprises 19.1 square miles, is 35 miles from New York City, and within 250 miles of one-quarter of the nation's total population. The community, the fifth oldest municipality in New Jersey, has grown from Indian territory, through a colonial period and is one of the links in the earliest settlement of the Atlantic seacoast that ultimately led to the formation of the United States.
Piscataway was founded in 1666, and officially incorporated in 1798.
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