For businesses in Paterson, NJ, AnSer offers live answering and message taking through its nationwide service, including after-hours and overflow call handling. Use the local context below when discussing your hours, call instructions and language requirements with our team.
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Paterson city is a Census place in NJ. Its published county relationships are Passaic County, New Jersey. Use the service address to confirm county-based assignments; a postal city name alone does not establish a Census boundary.
Geography source: 2025 Census county relationships; 2025 Gazetteer. These boundaries do not establish an AnSer office or your business’s service territory.
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Paterson city has an estimated 146,108 residents aged five and over in the 2020–2024 ACS. The table below breaks down home-language categories for this place; it does not measure your business’s callers.
Reported local estimates to compare with your caller records in Paterson: Spanish: 84,759 ±2,491; Other Indo-European languages: 6,133 ±964; Arabic: 3,948 ±1,021. These are the largest point estimates among non-English home-language categories whose estimates exceed their margins of error. Differences have not been tested for statistical significance. Identify the actual caller language within grouped categories before discussing coverage.
| Language spoken at home | Estimated residents | Margin of error (±) |
|---|---|---|
| All residents aged 5 and over | 146,108 | 769 |
| Speak only English | 47,727 | 2,138 |
| Spanish | 84,759 | 2,491 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 847 | 500 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 123 | 161 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 329 | 235 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 6,133 | 964 |
| Korean | 175 | 133 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 20 | 31 |
| Vietnamese | 0 | 33 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 4 | 9 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,170 | 525 |
| Arabic | 3,948 | 1,021 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 873 | 413 |
Estimates have uncertainty; home language does not establish preferred call language or provider capabilities. Read the data definitions, limitations and planning method.
Source: Census table C16001 for Paterson.
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