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SheetNJ-MENLO-PARK-TERRACE-NJ · Menlo Park Terrace, NJ 2,952 pop · income 84th 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 Menlo Park Terrace
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Menlo Park Terrace on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Oaklawn-Sunvi… · lowest
37,986
Oaklawn-Sunvi… · lowest
37,986 median HH income
18.7% of the leader · rank #1
Copake · near
111,089
Copake · near
111,089 median HH income
54.8% of the leader · rank #2
The Colony · near
111,090
The Colony · near
111,090 median HH income
54.8% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Villa · near
111,110
Lake Villa · near
111,110 median HH income
54.8% of the leader · rank #4
Menlo Park Te… · this city
111,111
Menlo Park Te… · this city
111,111 median HH income
54.8% of the leader · rank #5
Jamestown · near
111,111
Jamestown · near
111,111 median HH income
54.8% of the leader · rank #6
Millington · highest
202,604
Millington · highest
202,604 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 Menlo Park Terrace 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: 2,952.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Menlo Park Terrace lands in the 84th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
84th
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: Menlo Park Terrace, NJ
New Jersey's Menlo Park Terrace is a small town, with 2,952 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Menlo Park Terrace brings in $111,111 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.6%. Home values in Menlo Park Terrace run a median of $379,100, and the median resident age is 40.1 years. About 37.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.8% 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,132 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New Jersey's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 90.8 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Menlo Park Terrace'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 housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Menlo Park Terrace, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Menlo Park Terrace?
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Whitesboro (2,946 residents, $94,145 income); Hopelawn (2,986 residents, $83,977 income); Ocean Grove (2,916 residents, $74,410 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Oaklawn-Sunview, KS (2,952 residents); Gibsonia, PA (2,952 residents); Moorefield, WV (2,952 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Menlo Park Terrace?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.6%, 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 journey to work look like in Menlo Park Terrace?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 61.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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-
$111,111
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.6%
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Menlo Park Terrace profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 82/100 (A-) · $111,111
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.8%
Poverty rate: 68/100 (B-) · 4.6%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
How does Menlo Park Terrace compare to other US cities?
Where Menlo Park Terrace sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income84% 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 Menlo Park Terrace 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 Menlo Park Terrace near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Menlo Park Terrace ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Menlo Park Terrace only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#293 of 659
56th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#362 of 672
46th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#251 of 680
62nd percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#387 of 686
43rd 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
84th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Menlo Park Terrace's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$379,10025th 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
Menlo Park Terrace's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,621 of 15,516
More affordable than 44% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,994 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Menlo Park Terrace sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,621 of 15,516 and #6,994 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$111,111Menlo Park Terrace, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Menlo Park Terrace, 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 Menlo Park Terrace, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,952
Median Income
$111,111
Median Home Value
$379,100
Median Age
40.1
Poverty Rate
4.6%
Labor force participation
63.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
61.8%
Carpool
11.1%
Public Transit
11.3%
Walk
4.3%
Work from Home
10.8%
Other
0.7%
Based on 1,427 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 Menlo Park Terrace. 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 Menlo Park Terrace 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 Menlo Park Terrace sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Menlo Park Terrace 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.