Neighborhood Description People

The Great Falls Neighborhood is home to 13,423 people, who reside in 3,526 households.1 The average household size is 3.4 people, with 38.5% of households including four or more residents, and 6% consisting of 7 or more residents. 45% of neighborhood households include children among their residents. Among households with children, roughly half (52.9%) are married-couple households, with households headed by a single female representing 34.4% and households headed by a single male representing the remaining 12.7%.

In addition to the residents living in Census-designated “households”, just over 7% of the neighborhood population, or 1,059 people, live in “group quarters.” The largest group quarters site in the neighborhood is the Passaic County Jail. Other group quarters locations in the neighborhood are Eva’s Village homeless shelter and residential drug treatment facility.

1 Unless otherwise noted, all data in this section is from the 2015-2019 US Census American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates (ACS). In most cases, the geography analyzed consists of the following eleven 2010 US Census Block Groups

• Census Tract 1818, Block Group 1

• Census Tract 1818, Block Group 2

• Census Tract 1818, Block Group 3

• Census Tract 1802.02, Block Group 2

• Census Tract 1802.02, Block Group 3

• Census Tract 1802.02, Block Group 5

• Census Tract 1820, Block Group 1

• Census Tract 1822, Block Group 2

• Census Tract 1801, Block Group 3

• Census Tract 1819, Block Group 1

• Census Tract 2642, Block Group 3

On occasions when the relevant ACS data is only available at the Census-Tract-level, the geography analyzed consists of the following four US Census Tracts that fall entirely or mostly within the Great Falls Neighborhood:

• Census Tract 1802.02

• Census Tract 1818

• Census Tract 1820

• Census Tract 1822