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SheetNJ-FLORHAM-PARK-NJ · Florham Park, NJ 13,134 pop · income 94th 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 Florham Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Florham Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Las Vegas · lowest
42,732
Las Vegas · lowest
42,732 median HH income
27.1% of the leader · rank #1
Newington For… · near
147,650
Newington For… · near
147,650 median HH income
93.5% of the leader · rank #2
Abingdon · near
147,652
Abingdon · near
147,652 median HH income
93.5% of the leader · rank #3
Ridgewood · near
147,679
Ridgewood · near
147,679 median HH income
93.5% of the leader · rank #4
Florham Park · this city
147,714
Florham Park · this city
147,714 median HH income
93.5% of the leader · rank #5
Armorel · near
147,750
Armorel · near
147,750 median HH income
93.6% of the leader · rank #6
Superior · highest
157,909
Superior · highest
157,909 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 Florham Park 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: 13,134.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Florham Park - the verdict
Nationally, Florham Park sits in the 94th percentile for household income and the 81st percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
94th
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
81st
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: Florham Park, NJ
13,134 people live in Florham Park, New Jersey - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $147,714 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.3%. Florham Park's housing stock carries a median value of $722,700, and the median resident age is 39.9 years. 66.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 59.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 64 residential building permits were authorized in Florham Park (Construction Slowdown), down 76% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Florham Park reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 602.3 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
New Jersey carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 108.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,132 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New Jersey run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Florham Park workers runs 19.2 minutes, with 57.5% driving alone and 26.4% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 90.8 out of 100 (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Florham Park'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Florham Park, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, 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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Florham Park?
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 Ridgefield Park (13,167 residents, $98,184 income); Fords (13,052 residents, $116,250 income); Woodland Park (13,284 residents, $85,638 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Glendale, WI (13,134 residents); Superior, CO (13,136 residents); Dardenne Prairie, MO (13,137 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 education layer cover for Florham Park?
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. 66.3% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Florham Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 602.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 74% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Florham Park?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Florham Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 57.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.2 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
57.5%
Work from home
26.4%
Public transit
5.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,477 workers age 16+.
Is Florham Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,859 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +14.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 64 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
12,597
2025 estimate
14,456
Period change
+14.8%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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+
$147,714
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
66.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A+
27 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B+
3.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Florham Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 95/100 (A+) · $147,714
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 66.3%
Violent crime: 90/100 (A+) · 27 /100k
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.3%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where Florham Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Florham Park'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 - Florham Park highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Florham Park, NJ (this city): home $722,700, crime 602/100k
Glendale, WI : home $260,300, crime 4,481/100k
Webb City, MO : home $156,200, crime 2,350/100k
Las Vegas, NM : home $143,900, crime 2,122/100k
Ridgefield Park, NJ : home $459,400, crime 1,127/100k
Woodland Park, NJ : home $475,400, crime 1,065/100k
Somerville, NJ : home $403,600, crime 820/100k
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 Florham Park compare to other US cities?
Where Florham Park sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income94% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety81% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to New Jersey alone, Florham Park ranks #65 of 238 New Jersey cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Florham Park 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 Florham Park near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Florham Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Florham Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#136 of 659
79th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#91 of 672
86th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#326 of 680
51st percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#106 of 686
84th 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
94th percentile nationally for median household income · 81st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Florham Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Florham Park'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 Florham Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$722,7007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
Florham Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,709 of 15,516
More affordable than 18% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,556 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.9×, Florham Park sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,709 of 15,516 and #2,556 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$147,714Florham Park, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Florham Park, 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 Florham Park, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)66.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,134
Median Income
$147,714
Median Home Value
$722,700
Median Age
39.9
Poverty Rate
3.3%
Labor force participation
59.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
66.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
602.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
26.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
575.6
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
Florham Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
12,597 residents
2021
12,981 residents
2022
13,346 residents
2023
14,086 residents
2024
14,417 residents
2025
14,456 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
64
housing units authorized
Single-Family
43
detached homes
Multifamily
21
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
265
91
174
$25.2M
2020
182
110
72
$17.7M
2021
260
132
128
$69.8M
2022
154
68
86
$22.1M
2023
63
47
16
$19.0M
2024
64
43
21
$16.9M
Permit volume decreased 76% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.2 minutes
Drive Alone
57.5%
Carpool
5.1%
Public Transit
5.3%
Walk
4.5%
Work from Home
26.4%
Other
1.2%
Based on 6,477 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 Florham Park. 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 Florham Park 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 Florham Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Florham Park 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.