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Place dossier plate
SheetNJ-MIDLAND-PARK-NJ · Midland Park, NJ 6,996 pop · income 92nd 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 Midland Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Midland Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kosciusko · lowest
36,490
Kosciusko · lowest
36,490 median HH income
17.4% of the leader · rank #1
Westlake · near
140,000
Westlake · near
140,000 median HH income
66.6% of the leader · rank #2
East Renton H… · near
140,048
East Renton H… · near
140,048 median HH income
66.7% of the leader · rank #3
Franklin Squa… · near
140,051
Franklin Squa… · near
140,051 median HH income
66.7% of the leader · rank #4
Camas · near
140,053
Camas · near
140,053 median HH income
66.7% of the leader · rank #5
Midland Park · this city
140,063
Midland Park · this city
140,063 median HH income
66.7% of the leader · rank #6
Mountainside · highest
210,100
Mountainside · highest
210,100 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 Midland 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: 6,996.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Midland Park - the verdict
Midland Park ranks in the 92nd percentile for household income and the 76th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
92nd
percentile, household income
89th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
76th
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: Midland Park, NJ
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 6,996 residents in Midland Park, a small town within New Jersey. Midland Park households earn a median of $140,063 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.4%. Midland Park's housing stock carries a median value of $586,200, and the median resident age is 42.7 years. About 55.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 59.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 4 residential building permits were authorized in Midland Park (Construction Slowdown), down 64% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Midland Park reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 703.2 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New Jersey at 108.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Above Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,132 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New Jersey run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Midland Park workers runs 22.9 minutes, with 70.1% driving alone and 17.4% working from home. 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 Midland 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 housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Midland Park, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
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 Midland 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 Milltown (6,994 residents, $119,958 income); Mountainside (6,967 residents, $210,100 income); Stratford (6,965 residents, $100,735 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Spring Lake Park, MN (6,997 residents); Kosciusko, MS (6,994 residents); Fair Plain, MI (6,992 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Midland 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 4.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Midland Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.9 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Midland Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 703.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 69% 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Midland Park?
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. 55.2% 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.
Poverty estimate
0.4%
Bachelor's degree+
55.2%
Matched public schools
1
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Midland Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +66 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 4 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
6,973
2025 estimate
7,039
Period change
+0.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.4% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
108.8 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New Jersey average
B+
City profile score · Midland Park, NJ
75/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A+
$140,063
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
55.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A
42 /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.
Midland Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 97/100 (A+) · 0.4%
Household income: 93/100 (A+) · $140,063
Bachelor's+ share: 88/100 (A) · 55.2%
Violent crime: 86/100 (A) · 42 /100k
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where Midland Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Midland 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 - Midland Park highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Midland Park, NJ (this city): home $586,200, crime 703/100k
Spring Lake Park, MN : home $281,800, crime 2,098/100k
Kosciusko, MS : home $115,900, crime 1,803/100k
Fort Bragg, CA : home $481,200, crime 3,333/100k
Rockland, ME : home $234,400, crime 1,955/100k
Milltown, NJ : home $423,000, crime 1,352/100k
Mountainside, NJ : home $755,600, crime 355/100k
Stratford, NJ : home $238,200, crime 1,243/100k
Linwood, NJ : home $351,100, crime 733/100k
Barrington, NJ : home $244,400, crime 1,190/100k
How does Midland Park compare to other US cities?
Midland Park measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income92% higher than other cities
Home value89% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety76% 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: Midland Park ranks #80 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 Midland 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 Midland Park near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Midland Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Midland Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#159 of 659
76th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#157 of 672
77th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#536 of 680
21st percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#215 of 686
68th 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
92nd percentile nationally for median household income · 76th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Midland Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Midland 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 Midland Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$586,20011th percentilemore affordable than 11% 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
Midland Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,207 of 15,516
More affordable than 28% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,692 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.2×, Midland Park sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,207 of 15,516 and #8,692 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
$140,063Midland Park, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Midland 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 Midland Park, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)55.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,996
Median Income
$140,063
Median Home Value
$586,200
Median Age
42.7
Poverty Rate
0.4%
Labor force participation
59.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
55.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
703.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
42.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
661.0
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
Midland Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,973 residents
2021
6,954 residents
2022
6,945 residents
2023
6,987 residents
2024
7,040 residents
2025
7,039 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
4
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
4
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
11
1
10
$0.2M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
1
1
0
$0.8M
2022
2
2
0
$0.8M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
4
0
4
$1.2M
Permit volume decreased 64% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.9 minutes
Drive Alone
70.1%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
4.3%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
17.4%
Other
1.0%
Based on 3,428 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 Midland 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 Midland 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 Midland Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Midland 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.