Essex County * New York-Newark-Jersey City metro
13.7K
Population
$36K
Median income
per household
$373.2K
Home value
28.6%
Poverty rate
What stands out
1 of 5 metrics better than U.S. benchmarks
Housing stretch: typical home values are about 10.4× the median household income.
Median household income
$36K
U.S.
$81K
Per-capita income
$19.5K
U.S.
$45K
Median home value
$373.2K
U.S.
$333K
Rent-burdened renters (≥30%)
55.8%
U.S.
51.1%
Severely rent-burdened (≥50%)
29.4%
U.S.
25.9%
Rent-to-Income
35.6%
Above 30% threshold (cost-burdened)
Home-Value-to-Income
10.4×
Above typical 3-5x ratio
Share of households by income bracket (ACS).
0 of 6 available metrics better than U.S.
CDC PLACES modeled ZCTA-level estimates (adult prevalence).
Obesity
42.7%
U.S.
33.3%
Diabetes
19.8%
U.S.
12.0%
Current smoking
29.8%
U.S.
13.1%
3 of 3 metrics better than U.S.
Best available speed
1,000Mbps
Gigabit speeds reported
100+ Mbps coverage
98.6%
U.S.
85.3%
Gigabit ready
33.3%
U.S.
8.6%
5G available
99.8%
U.S.
77.4%
Education metrics come from ACS 5-year estimates for ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs).
Bachelor's degree+ (age 25+)
11.7%
U.S.
35.7%
ZIP-level estimates can have higher margins of error than county/state totals; treat small differences as noise.
School districts
8 tracts overlap this ZIP. Hover over segments to explore.
Tract 9802
68.6%
Tract 48.02
15%
Tract 9801
6.3%
Tract 68
4.9%
Tract 57
3.7%
Others (3)
1.4%
ZIP codes can span multiple congressional districts. Overlap percentages are approximate by land area. Verify by address.
NJ-10
99.9%
NJ-8
0.1%
Release schedule and upstream dates: Sources.
Derived statistics
Data accuracy & methodology