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Place dossier plate
SheetNJ-HADDON-HEIGHTS-NJ · Haddon Heights, NJ 7,488 pop · income 89th 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 Haddon Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Haddon Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Tell City · lowest
50,702
Tell City · lowest
50,702 median HH income
36.5% of the leader · rank #1
Dogtown · near
126,042
Dogtown · near
126,042 median HH income
90.7% of the leader · rank #2
East Richmond… · near
126,042
East Richmond… · near
126,042 median HH income
90.7% of the leader · rank #3
Upper Red Hook · near
126,042
Upper Red Hook · near
126,042 median HH income
90.7% of the leader · rank #4
Haddon Heights · this city
126,055
Haddon Heights · this city
126,055 median HH income
90.7% of the leader · rank #5
Lemont · near
126,100
Lemont · near
126,100 median HH income
90.7% of the leader · rank #6
Union · highest
139,013
Union · highest
139,013 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 Haddon Heights 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: 7,488.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Haddon Heights - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Haddon Heights lands in the 89th percentile for household income and the 86th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
89th
percentile, household income
72nd
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
86th
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: Haddon Heights, NJ
7,488 people live in Haddon Heights, New Jersey - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $126,055 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.4%. Home values in Haddon Heights run a median of $354,700, and the median resident age is 40.5 years. Educational attainment runs 55.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1 residential building permits were authorized in Haddon Heights (Construction Slowdown), down 80% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Haddon Heights reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 494.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
New Jersey carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New Jersey at 108.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Above Average). 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. The average commute for Haddon Heights workers runs 17.8 minutes, with 63.6% driving alone and 24.7% 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 Haddon Heights'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 reported crime to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Haddon Heights, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
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.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Haddon Heights?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.4%, 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.
What does the education layer cover for Haddon Heights?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 55.4% 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Haddon Heights?
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Berlin (7,503 residents, $101,008 income); Palmyra (7,447 residents, $85,014 income); Mystic Island (7,616 residents, $71,917 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Franklin CDP (Merced County), CA (7,487 residents); Tell City, IN (7,490 residents); Meraux, LA (7,492 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Haddon Heights?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 494.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 78% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 Haddon Heights growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +122 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.6% 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.
Period change
+1.6%
2025 estimate
7,609
2020 estimate
7,487
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Haddon Heights?
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 63.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.8 minutes.
Public transit
4.6%
Work from home
24.7%
Drive alone
63.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,010 workers age 16+.
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.
Violent crime A+
0 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A+
1.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A
$126,055
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
55.4%
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.
Haddon Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 97/100 (A+) · 0 /100k
Poverty rate: 90/100 (A+) · 1.4%
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $126,055
Bachelor's+ share: 89/100 (A) · 55.4%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where Haddon Heights sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Haddon Heights'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 - Haddon Heights highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Haddon Heights, NJ (this city): home $354,700, crime 495/100k
Tell City, IN : home $121,200, crime 1,043/100k
New London, WI : home $162,800, crime 391/100k
Knoxville, IA : home $147,600, crime 2,044/100k
Berlin, NJ : home $310,000, crime 1,296/100k
Palmyra, NJ : home $216,600, crime 2,065/100k
Bloomingdale, NJ : home $398,000, crime 506/100k
Washington, NJ : home $260,200, crime 734/100k
Brigantine, NJ : home $485,000, crime 859/100k
How does Haddon Heights compare to other US cities?
Where Haddon Heights sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value72% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety86% 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: Haddon Heights ranks #49 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 Haddon Heights 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 Haddon Heights near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Haddon Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Haddon Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#208 of 659
68th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#405 of 672
40th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#470 of 680
30th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#211 of 686
69th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income · 86th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Haddon Heights's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Haddon Heights'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 Haddon Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$354,70028th percentilemore affordable than 28% 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
Haddon Heights's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,662 of 15,516
More affordable than 64% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,909 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Haddon Heights sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,662 of 15,516 and #4,909 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
$126,055Haddon Heights, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Haddon Heights, 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 Haddon Heights, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)55.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,488
Median Income
$126,055
Median Home Value
$354,700
Median Age
40.5
Poverty Rate
1.4%
Labor force participation
68.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
55.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
494.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
494.7
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Haddon Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,487 residents
2021
7,486 residents
2022
7,496 residents
2023
7,549 residents
2024
7,580 residents
2025
7,609 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
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
5
0
$0.9M
2020
4
4
0
$0.8M
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
1
1
0
$0.1M
2024
1
1
0
$0.6M
Permit volume decreased 80% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.8 minutes
Drive Alone
63.6%
Carpool
4.8%
Public Transit
4.6%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
24.7%
Other
1.7%
Based on 4,010 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 Haddon Heights. 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 Haddon Heights 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 Haddon Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Haddon Heights 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.