The Real Irish Riviera: Where to Find the Highest Concentration of Irish Americans this St. Patricks Day

The ranking and mapping of American municipalities by Irish-American ethnic background is just one of the many uses of the new Census 2000 Long Form DVD by GeoLytics, a data software company that produces demographic data and maps.

East Brunswick, NJ (PRWEB) March 9, 2004 ---While many towns and municipalities across the Northeast have claimed the nickname, according to 2000 U.S. census data the community of Spring Lake, New Jersey is the real Irish Riviera" in the U.S. Using software produced by GeoLytics, planners and researchers can quickly and easily retrieve important demographic information from the 2000 census. Ranking is based on the percentage of the local population that was counted as Irish" or Scotch-Irish" in 2000.

Spring Lake, NJ landed at the top of this survey with over 50% of its total population being of Irish descent (52.62% Irish). Spring Lake is a picturesque seaside town along the Jersey Shore. Also landing in the Top Ten are the nearby seaside NJ towns of Avon-by-the-Sea and Sea Girt -- ranked numbers 4 & 5 (both 48% Irish) -- and Spring Lake Heights, NJ ranked number 10 (44%).

Another hub of Irish-American population on the East Coast is the South Shore area of Massachusetts, with Marshfield (48% Irish) and Scituate (47% Irish) falling in the number 2 and number 6 places.

For more information about Irish-Americans in the U.S. -- or other ethnic distributions, race, age, income, education, employments, housing, or poverty indicators -- consider the Census 2000 Long Form DVD from GeoLytics. This comprehensive dataset enables researchers to easily analyze U.S. demographics and to map the results in an instant.

GeoLytics offers many products based on Census data (1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000). For a complete product description, lists of demographic variables, and levels of geography for all of our products, please go to www.geolytics.com.

About GeoLytics:
Since 1996 GeoLytics has published detailed demographic and geographic data on CD-ROM for business, academic, non-profit, and government markets. They specialize in compressing large amounts of government data, and packaging it with innovative and easy-to-use software. GeoLytics delivers the highest performance/cost ratio for datasets including demographic data, TIGER cartographic files, Estimates, Projections and the Consumer Expenditure Survey. GeoLytics is the leading provider of public domain mapping and demographic data in the US.