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SheetNJ-CEDAR-KNOLLS-NJ · Cedar Knolls, NJ 4,754 pop · income 96th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Cedar Knolls
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cedar Knolls on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Combee Settle… · lowest
41,366
Combee Settle… · lowest
41,366 median HH income
24.9% of the leader · rank #1
Marble · near
166,000
Marble · near
166,000 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #2
Cascades · near
166,023
Cascades · near
166,023 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Cedar Knolls · this city
166,077
Cedar Knolls · this city
166,077 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Sugar Bush Kn… · near
166,087
Sugar Bush Kn… · near
166,087 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Darien Downto… · near
166,111
Darien Downto… · near
166,111 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Stockton Bend · highest
166,250
Stockton Bend · highest
166,250 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Cedar Knolls on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 4,754.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Cedar Knolls places in the 96th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
96th
percentile, household income
90th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Cedar Knolls, NJ
New Jersey's Cedar Knolls is a small town, with 4,754 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Cedar Knolls households earn a median of $166,077 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.5%. Home values in Cedar Knolls run a median of $610,100, and the median resident age is 41.0 years. 55.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 69.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
New Jersey carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New Jersey scores 108.8 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,132 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across New Jersey, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 90.8 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Cedar Knolls's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cedar Knolls, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Cedar Knolls?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cedar Knolls?
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Northvale (4,782 residents, $117,717 income); Country Lake Estates (4,700 residents, $124,636 income); Garwood (4,688 residents, $100,948 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Nellis AFB, NV (4,755 residents); Christiana, TN (4,753 residents); Combee Settlement, FL (4,756 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
How far does income reach against housing in Cedar Knolls?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.5% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
108.8 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New Jersey average
B
City profile score · Cedar Knolls, NJ
74/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A+
$166,077
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
0.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A
55.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
108.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Cedar Knolls profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $166,077
Poverty rate: 96/100 (A+) · 0.5%
Bachelor's+ share: 89/100 (A) · 55.8%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
How does Cedar Knolls compare to other US cities?
Cedar Knolls measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value90% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Cedar Knolls against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New Jersey only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New Jersey-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Cedar Knolls near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cedar Knolls ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cedar Knolls only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#93 of 659
86th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#143 of 672
79th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#533 of 680
21st percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#205 of 686
70th percentile in New Jersey
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New Jersey only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
96th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Cedar Knolls's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$610,10010th percentilemore affordable than 10% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Cedar Knolls's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,625 of 15,516
More affordable than 38% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,672 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.7×, Cedar Knolls sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,625 of 15,516 and #7,672 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$166,077Cedar Knolls, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cedar Knolls, NJ median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Cedar Knolls, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)55.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,754
Median Income
$166,077
Median Home Value
$610,100
Median Age
41.0
Poverty Rate
0.5%
Labor force participation
69.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
55.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
64.1%
Carpool
16.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.1%
Work from Home
18.3%
Other
1.0%
Based on 2,545 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New Jersey statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $275
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New Jersey at $275 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $60 ).
These are New Jersey statewide averages, not a meter reading for Cedar Knolls. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New Jersey's BEA cost-of-living index is 108.8 (Well Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Cedar Knolls is $2,132/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New Jersey statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 90.8 / 100 (Very High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New Jersey statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Cedar Knolls sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cedar Knolls compares to similar-size New Jersey cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.