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SheetNJ-EGG-HARBOR-CITY-NJ · Egg Harbor City, NJ 4,378 pop · income 47th 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 Egg Harbor City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Egg Harbor City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Leisure Villa… · lowest
47,231
Leisure Villa… · lowest
47,231 median HH income
28.2% of the leader · rank #1
Robinson · near
67,591
Robinson · near
67,591 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #2
Swan Quarter · near
67,591
Swan Quarter · near
67,591 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #3
Eagleton · near
67,596
Eagleton · near
67,596 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #4
Egg Harbor Ci… · this city
67,604
Egg Harbor Ci… · this city
67,604 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #5
Tehama · near
67,614
Tehama · near
67,614 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #6
Wanamassa · highest
167,712
Wanamassa · highest
167,712 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Egg Harbor City on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 4,378.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Egg Harbor City - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Egg Harbor City places in the 47th percentile for household income and the 34th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
47th
percentile, household income
37th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
34th
percentile, safety
📝 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: Egg Harbor City, NJ
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 4,378 residents in Egg Harbor City, a small town within New Jersey. Households in Egg Harbor City report a median income of $67,604 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.6%. Egg Harbor City's housing stock carries a median value of $182,100, and the median resident age is 36.7 years. Educational attainment runs 18.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 89% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1915.2 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,132 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across New Jersey, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 90.8 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Egg Harbor City'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 housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Egg Harbor City, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Egg Harbor City?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the education layer cover for Egg Harbor City?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 18.7% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Which cities make useful reference points for Egg Harbor City?
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Oak Valley (4,374 residents, $90,563 income); Magnolia (4,360 residents, $89,489 income); Atlantic Highlands (4,409 residents, $125,438 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ludlow, KY (4,378 residents); Lolo, MT (4,378 residents); Hamburg, PA (4,377 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Egg Harbor City?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Egg Harbor City growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +42 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
4,384
2025 estimate
4,426
Period change
+1.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Egg Harbor City?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1915.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 16% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
1915.2
Violent rate
182.4
Property rate
1732.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 4.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
108.8 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New Jersey average
D
City profile score · Egg Harbor City, NJ
42/100
5 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.
Poverty rate B-
4.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C-
182 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income D
$67,604
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.7%
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.
Egg Harbor City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 68/100 (B-) · 4.6%
Violent crime: 50/100 (C-) · 182 /100k
Household income: 46/100 (D) · $67,604
Bachelor's+ share: 31/100 (F) · 18.7%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where Egg Harbor City sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Egg Harbor City's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Egg Harbor City highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Egg Harbor City, NJ (this city): home $182,100, crime 1,915/100k
Ludlow, KY : home $154,700, crime 1,183/100k
Hamburg, PA : home $182,900, crime 1,565/100k
Prescott, WI : home $282,100, crime 507/100k
Magnolia, NJ : home $221,100, crime 3,277/100k
Atlantic Highlands, NJ : home $615,300, crime 595/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Egg Harbor City compare to other US cities?
Egg Harbor City measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income47% higher than other cities
Home value37% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety34% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just New Jersey and the picture shifts: Egg Harbor City ranks #176 of 238 New Jersey cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Egg Harbor City 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 Egg Harbor City near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Egg Harbor City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Egg Harbor City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#587 of 659
11th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#637 of 672
5th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#251 of 680
62nd percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#613 of 686
10th 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
47th percentile nationally for median household income · 34th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Egg Harbor City's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Egg Harbor City's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Egg Harbor City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$182,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 63% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,000 of 15,516
More affordable than 68% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,391 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Egg Harbor City sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,000 of 15,516 and #4,391 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$67,604Egg Harbor City, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Egg Harbor City, 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 Egg Harbor City, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,378
Median Income
$67,604
Median Home Value
$182,100
Median Age
36.7
Poverty Rate
4.6%
Labor force participation
57.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1915.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
182.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1732.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Egg Harbor City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,384 residents
2021
4,389 residents
2022
4,403 residents
2023
4,410 residents
2024
4,434 residents
2025
4,426 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
9
9
0
$0.9M
2020
7
7
0
$0.7M
2021
2
2
0
$0.2M
2022
1
1
0
$0.1M
2023
1
1
0
$0.1M
2024
1
1
0
$0.1M
Permit volume decreased 89% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.1%
Carpool
1.8%
Public Transit
4.1%
Walk
6.3%
Work from Home
4.9%
Other
2.8%
Based on 1,897 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 Egg Harbor City. 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 Egg Harbor City 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 Egg Harbor City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Egg Harbor City 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, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, 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.