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Place dossier plate
SheetNJ-NEW-PROVIDENCE-NJ · New Providence, NJ 13,577 pop · income 96th 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 New Providence
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest New Providence on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Martinsville · lowest
42,434
Martinsville · lowest
42,434 median HH income
26.0% of the leader · rank #1
Canjilon · near
162,813
Canjilon · near
162,813 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Incline · near
162,821
Incline · near
162,821 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
South Lansing · near
162,846
South Lansing · near
162,846 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
New Providence · this city
162,877
New Providence · this city
162,877 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Lewisburg · near
162,958
Lewisburg · near
162,958 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Purcellville · highest
162,981
Purcellville · highest
162,981 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 New Providence 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: 13,577.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
New Providence - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, New Providence places in the 96th percentile for household income and the 93rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
96th
percentile, household income
94th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
93rd
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: New Providence, NJ
New Jersey's New Providence is a small town, with 13,577 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. New Providence households earn a median of $162,877 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.3%. New Providence's housing stock carries a median value of $734,300, and the median resident age is 44.7 years. 66.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 58.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 103 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 587% from five years earlier. New Providence reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 298.9 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: 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New Jersey run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 New Providence'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 reported crime to schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For New Providence, 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.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for New Providence?
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 Echelon (13,577 residents, $81,808 income); Eatontown (13,537 residents, $90,174 income); Mercerville (13,693 residents, $125,678 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fruita, CO (13,578 residents); Villas, FL (13,578 residents); Montgomeryville, PA (13,572 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 can the FBI record say about safety in New Providence?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 298.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 87% 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.
What does the education layer cover for New Providence?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 66.6% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in New Providence?
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 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 New Providence?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 55.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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
55.7%
Work from home
27.3%
Public transit
11.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,098 workers age 16+.
Is New Providence growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +363 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 103 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 upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
13,729
2025 estimate
14,092
Period change
+2.6%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.3% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
108.8 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New Jersey average
B+
City profile score · New Providence, NJ
77/100
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.
Household income A+
$162,877
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
66.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A
44 /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.
New Providence profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $162,877
Bachelor's+ share: 96/100 (A+) · 66.6%
Poverty rate: 91/100 (A+) · 1.3%
Violent crime: 85/100 (A) · 44 /100k
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where New Providence sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
New Providence'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 - New Providence highlighted among 25 peers.Read the chart values
New Providence, NJ (this city): home $734,300, crime 299/100k
Fruita, CO : home $361,500, crime 781/100k
Martinsville, VA : home $92,500, crime 1,518/100k
Eatontown, NJ : home $454,300, crime 2,108/100k
Woodland Park, NJ : home $475,400, crime 1,065/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does New Providence compare to other US cities?
New Providence measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value94% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety93% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at New Jersey, New Providence ranks #22 of 238 New Jersey cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares New Providence 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 New Providence near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, New Providence ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares New Providence only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#100 of 659
85th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#87 of 672
87th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#480 of 680
28th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#100 of 686
85th 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
96th percentile nationally for median household income · 93rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
New Providence's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
New Providence'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 New Providence's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$734,3006th percentilemore affordable than 6% 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
New Providence's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,991 of 15,516
More affordable than 23% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,343 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.5×, New Providence sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,991 of 15,516 and #2,343 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$162,877New Providence, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context New Providence, 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 New Providence, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)66.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,577
Median Income
$162,877
Median Home Value
$734,300
Median Age
44.7
Poverty Rate
1.3%
Labor force participation
58.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
66.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
298.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
43.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
255.2
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
New Providence's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,729 residents
2021
13,689 residents
2022
13,673 residents
2023
13,855 residents
2024
14,093 residents
2025
14,092 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
103
housing units authorized
Single-Family
11
detached homes
Multifamily
92
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
15
6
9
$3.5M
2020
7
5
2
$2.3M
2021
8
6
2
$3.0M
2022
16
5
11
$4.7M
2023
115
13
102
$29.0M
2024
103
11
92
$17.1M
Permit volume increased 587% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
55.7%
Carpool
3.4%
Public Transit
11.9%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
27.3%
Based on 6,098 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 New Providence. 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 New Providence 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 New Providence sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How New Providence 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.