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SheetNJ-HOBOKEN-NJ · Hoboken, NJ 58,340 pop · income 97th 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 Hoboken
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hoboken on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Springfield · lowest
45,883
Springfield · lowest
45,883 median HH income
25.9% of the leader · rank #1
Croom · near
176,758
Croom · near
176,758 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #2
Milpitas · near
176,822
Milpitas · near
176,822 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #3
Dune Acres · near
176,875
Dune Acres · near
176,875 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #4
Hoboken · this city
176,943
Hoboken · this city
176,943 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Southampton · near
177,045
Southampton · near
177,045 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Bodega Bay · highest
177,188
Bodega Bay · highest
177,188 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 Hoboken 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: 58,340.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hoboken - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Hoboken lands in the 97th percentile for household income and the 33rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
97th
percentile, household income
96th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
33rd
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: Hoboken, NJ
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 58,340 residents in Hoboken, a small city within New Jersey. Households in Hoboken report a median income of $176,943 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.9%. Hoboken's housing stock carries a median value of $872,100, and the median resident age is 31.9 years. 83.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 79.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 59 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 66% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1972.3 in FBI UCR data, near 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,132 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across New Jersey, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Hoboken workers runs 24.6 minutes, with 16.9% driving alone and 34.2% 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 Hoboken'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 population change to reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hoboken, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, 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.
Question 1
Is Hoboken growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -893 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 59 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hoboken?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1972.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 14% 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.
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 83.1% 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 Hoboken?
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 Vineland (60,692 residents, $65,854 income); New Brunswick (55,744 residents, $60,248 income); Perth Amboy (55,278 residents, $58,490 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Madison, AL (58,335 residents); Carson, NV (58,364 residents); St. Clair Shores, MI (58,287 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.
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 Hoboken?
Public transit is the largest reported mode at 37.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.6 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
16.9%
Work from home
34.2%
Public transit
37.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 38,796 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Hoboken?
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 1.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.9×
Home value
$872,100
Household income
$176,943
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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+
$176,943
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
83.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
189 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Hoboken profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $176,943
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 83.1%
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 1.9%
Violent crime: 49/100 (D) · 189 /100k
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where Hoboken sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hoboken'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 - Hoboken highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Hoboken, NJ (this city): home $872,100, crime 1,972/100k
Madison, AL : home $367,900, crime 1,538/100k
St. Clair Shores, MI : home $196,400, crime 1,251/100k
Springfield, OH : home $107,600, crime 5,887/100k
St. Peters, MO : home $252,800, crime 1,265/100k
Vineland, NJ : home $218,200, crime 3,123/100k
New Brunswick, NJ : home $316,800, crime 3,325/100k
Perth Amboy, NJ : home $339,200, crime 1,760/100k
Plainfield, NJ : home $383,300, crime 2,021/100k
West New York, NJ : home $410,200, crime 1,760/100k
How does Hoboken compare to other US cities?
Where Hoboken sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income97% higher than other cities
Home value96% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety33% 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: Hoboken ranks #180 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 Hoboken 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 Hoboken near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hoboken ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hoboken only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#74 of 659
89th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#55 of 672
92nd percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#438 of 680
35th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#15 of 686
98th 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
97th percentile nationally for median household income · 33rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hoboken's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hoboken'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 Hoboken's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$872,1004th percentilemore affordable than 4% 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
Hoboken'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
#12,768 of 15,516
More affordable than 18% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#447 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.9×, Hoboken sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,768 of 15,516 and #447 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$176,943Hoboken, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hoboken, 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 Hoboken, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)83.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)79.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
58,340
Median Income
$176,943
Median Home Value
$872,100
Median Age
31.9
Poverty Rate
1.9%
Labor force participation
79.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
83.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1972.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
188.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1783.8
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
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hoboken's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
59,920 residents
2021
58,280 residents
2022
57,642 residents
2023
58,131 residents
2024
58,742 residents
2025
59,027 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
59
housing units authorized
Single-Family
11
detached homes
Multifamily
48
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
175
3
172
$91.5M
2020
95
3
92
$85.4M
2021
93
9
84
$67.1M
2022
55
9
46
$41.0M
2023
54
8
46
$42.1M
2024
59
11
48
$43.6M
Permit volume decreased 66% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.6 minutes
Drive Alone
16.9%
Carpool
1.4%
Public Transit
37.6%
Walk
7.9%
Work from Home
34.2%
Other
2.0%
Based on 38,796 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 Hoboken. 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 Hoboken 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 Hoboken sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hoboken 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.