According to data released by the American Community Survey, Kiryas Joel is listed as the youngest town in the United States. It is followed in second place by Lakewood. The American Community Survey is run annually by the Census Bureau.
This information was published in an article on Thursday by Business Insider.
“By far the youngest place on our list is the village of Kiryas Joel, NY”, the report stated.
“This is a community of strict Hasidic Jews, and they tend to marry very young and have large families. The sheer number of children in the village leads to a very low median age.”
There was no comment about Lakewood which appears second on the list.
Kiryas Joel is located in Orange County, NY, and Lakewood is located in Ocean County, NJ.
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1. High birth rate. Our communities still love children and have lots of them. The seculars find kids to be a pain.
2. Low number of older people (remember very few European Jews who were born between 1930 and 1945 survived, and that group would now be 69-84, which is when most people start dying. Therefore our community has relatively few older people dying off – this will change those born before 1945 become few in number.
Lakewood may very well be the second youngest, but the list lists the youngest in each state. It is therefore possible, albeit unlikely, that another town in New York State is younger than Lakewood.
#2 New Square, NY could easily have a younger population than Lakewood, NJ and likely does for the precise reason you gave.
This news is truly beautiful news. May we continue having many children.
New square median age is 13.5
To see the data by yourself go to http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t#none
enter in the topic median age and in the next field enter the locality you are looking for
and in Monsey the median age is 17.4 also lower than Lakewood
Lakewood has a few very large independent adult communities which probably also change the balance of the Lakewood community How ever as long as eveyone is healthy and focused it doesnt really matter Kein Yirbu