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Place dossier plate
SheetNJ-MOUNT-TABOR-NJ ยท Mount Tabor, NJ 1,127 pop ยท income 85th 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 Mount Tabor
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mount Tabor on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Funny River ยท lowest
46,550
Funny River ยท lowest
46,550 median HH income
20.6% of the leader ยท rank #1
Bryantown ยท near
113,580
Bryantown ยท near
113,580 median HH income
50.3% of the leader ยท rank #2
Hide-A-Way Hiโฆ ยท near
113,580
Hide-A-Way Hiโฆ ยท near
113,580 median HH income
50.3% of the leader ยท rank #3
Nanuet ยท near
113,582
Nanuet ยท near
113,582 median HH income
50.3% of the leader ยท rank #4
Mount Tabor ยท this city
113,594
Mount Tabor ยท this city
113,594 median HH income
50.3% of the leader ยท rank #5
Rowlett ยท near
113,600
Rowlett ยท near
113,600 median HH income
50.3% of the leader ยท rank #6
Deans ยท highest
225,750
Deans ยท highest
225,750 median HH income
100.0% of the leader ยท 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 Mount Tabor 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: 1,127.
Nationally, Mount Tabor sits in the 85th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
85th
percentile, household income
79th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
๐ 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: Mount Tabor, NJ
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 1,127 residents in Mount Tabor, a small town within New Jersey. Mount Tabor households earn a median of $113,594 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Home values in Mount Tabor run a median of $415,600, and the median resident age is 48.2 years. About 51.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 56.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 1 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across New Jersey, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Mount Tabor report an average commute of 20.2 minutes, with 77.8% driving alone and 13.8% 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 Mount Tabor'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mount Tabor, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Mount Tabor?
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 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mount Tabor?
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 Hampton (1,127 residents, $77,222 income); Oxford (1,140 residents, $77,188 income); Port Morris (1,141 residents, $65,070 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Funny River, AK (1,127 residents); Wallace, ID (1,127 residents); Granby, MA (1,127 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Mount Tabor?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.2 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. 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.
What does the education layer cover for Mount Tabor?
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. 51.0% 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.
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+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A
51.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$113,594
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop โฅ1,000); ACS.
Cost of living F
108.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 โ 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).
Mount Tabor profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) ยท 0.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 85/100 (A) ยท 51.0%
Household income: 83/100 (A-) ยท $113,594
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) ยท 108.8 index
How does Mount Tabor compare to other US cities?
Where Mount Tabor sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income85% higher than other cities
Home value79% 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 Mount Tabor 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 Mount Tabor near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mount Tabor ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mount Tabor only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#278 of 659
58th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#310 of 672
54th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#540 of 680
0th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#251 of 686
63rd 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
85th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Mount Tabor's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$415,60021st percentilemore affordable than 21% 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 ยท 2023
Mount Tabor's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7ร
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0โ5.0ร
National rank
#9,571 of 15,516
More affordable than 38% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,637 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.7ร, Mount Tabor sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,571 of 15,516 and #7,637 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 รท median household income for cities with both fields and population โฅ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0โ5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$113,594Mount Tabor, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mount Tabor, 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 Mount Tabor, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)51.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,127
Median Income
$113,594
Median Home Value
$415,600
Median Age
48.2
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
56.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
51.0%
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.2 minutes
Drive Alone
77.8%
Carpool
8.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
13.8%
Based on 571 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 Mount Tabor. 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 Mount Tabor 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 Mount Tabor sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mount Tabor 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, NCES CCD, 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.