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SheetNJ-HAMILTON-SQUARE-NJ · Hamilton Square, NJ 11,643 pop · income 91st 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 Hamilton Square
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hamilton Square on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Brookhaven · lowest
36,269
Brookhaven · lowest
36,269 median HH income
25.4% of the leader · rank #1
Kohler · near
135,688
Kohler · near
135,688 median HH income
95.2% of the leader · rank #2
Sykesville · near
135,692
Sykesville · near
135,692 median HH income
95.2% of the leader · rank #3
Hamilton Squa… · this city
135,694
Hamilton Squa… · this city
135,694 median HH income
95.2% of the leader · rank #4
Manorville · near
135,695
Manorville · near
135,695 median HH income
95.2% of the leader · rank #5
Pike Creek · near
135,703
Pike Creek · near
135,703 median HH income
95.2% of the leader · rank #6
Ringwood · highest
142,529
Ringwood · highest
142,529 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 Hamilton Square 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: 11,643.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Hamilton Square lands in the 91st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
91st
percentile, household income
75th
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: Hamilton Square, NJ
11,643 people live in Hamilton Square, New Jersey - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Hamilton Square households earn a median of $135,694 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.9%. Hamilton Square's housing stock carries a median value of $376,900, and the median resident age is 46.2 years. Educational attainment runs 51.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New Jersey's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). Workers in Hamilton Square report an average commute of 20.8 minutes, with 73.0% driving alone and 15.7% 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 Hamilton Square'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hamilton Square, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Hamilton Square?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.8 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Hamilton Square?
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 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hamilton Square?
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.
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Guttenberg (11,638 residents, $77,636 income); Bellmawr (11,678 residents, $74,812 income); Ringwood (11,600 residents, $142,529 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are South Yarmouth, MA (11,642 residents); Mendota Heights, MN (11,644 residents); Alcoa, TN (11,635 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.
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+
$135,694
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A
51.1%
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).
Hamilton Square profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 92/100 (A+) · $135,694
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 1.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 85/100 (A) · 51.1%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
How does Hamilton Square compare to other US cities?
Here's how Hamilton Square stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value75% 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 Hamilton Square 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 Hamilton Square near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hamilton Square ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hamilton Square only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#169 of 659
74th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#368 of 672
45th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#438 of 680
35th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#247 of 686
64th 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
91st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Hamilton Square's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$376,90025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
Hamilton Square's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,456 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#631 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.8×, Hamilton Square sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,456 of 15,516 and #631 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$135,694Hamilton Square, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hamilton Square, 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 Hamilton Square, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)51.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,643
Median Income
$135,694
Median Home Value
$376,900
Median Age
46.2
Poverty Rate
1.9%
Labor force participation
62.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
51.1%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.8 minutes
Drive Alone
73.0%
Carpool
6.8%
Public Transit
2.6%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
15.7%
Other
0.8%
Based on 6,027 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 Hamilton Square. 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 Hamilton Square 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 Hamilton Square sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hamilton Square 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.