Piscataway is a larger medium-sized township located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 60,366 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, Piscataway is the 19th largest community in New Jersey.

Housing costs in Piscataway are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New Jersey.

Also of interest is that Piscataway has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Piscataway telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.64% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Piscataway is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Piscataway enrolled in college, Piscataway has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.

Not only is Piscataway a township with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because Piscataway is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Piscataway a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

Like elsewhere in America, most people in Piscataway use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Piscataway‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the train. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.

The citizens of Piscataway are among the most well-educated in the nation: 49.61% of adults in Piscataway have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Piscataway in 2022 was $41,467, which is lower middle income relative to New Jersey, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $165,868 for a family of four.

Piscataway is an extremely ethnically-diverse township. The people who call Piscataway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Piscataway residents report their race to be Asian, followed by White. Piscataway also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.24% of the township’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Piscataway include Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and Jamaican.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Piscataway's cultural character, accounting for 36.35% of the township’s population.

The most common language spoken in Piscataway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Spanish.