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SheetNJ-NORTH-ARLINGTON-NJ · North Arlington, NJ 16,368 pop · income 79th 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 North Arlington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest North Arlington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Chickasha · lowest
55,039
Chickasha · lowest
55,039 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #1
Delafield · near
101,482
Delafield · near
101,482 median HH income
45.4% of the leader · rank #2
East Aurora · near
101,490
East Aurora · near
101,490 median HH income
45.4% of the leader · rank #3
North Arlingt… · this city
101,493
North Arlingt… · this city
101,493 median HH income
45.4% of the leader · rank #4
Cold Brook · near
101,500
Cold Brook · near
101,500 median HH income
45.4% of the leader · rank #5
Chittenden · near
101,500
Chittenden · near
101,500 median HH income
45.4% of the leader · rank #6
Vienna · highest
223,571
Vienna · highest
223,571 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 North Arlington 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: 16,368.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, North Arlington lands in the 79th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
79th
percentile, household income
83rd
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: North Arlington, NJ
New Jersey's North Arlington is a small town, with 16,368 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. North Arlington households earn a median of $101,493 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.1%. North Arlington's housing stock carries a median value of $464,700, and the median resident age is 39.6 years. About 38.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 0 residential building permits were authorized in North Arlington (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier, per Census BPS 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. 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). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 90.8 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of North Arlington'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 work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For North Arlington, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is North Arlington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +201 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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.
What does the journey to work look like in North Arlington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.1%. 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. 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 North Arlington?
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 6 public schools within the city match. 38.6% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for North Arlington?
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 Madison (16,464 residents, $168,469 income); South River (16,007 residents, $101,853 income); New Milford (16,882 residents, $113,513 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Vienna, VA (16,369 residents); Lake Wales, FL (16,365 residents); Mastic Beach, NY (16,382 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in North Arlington?
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 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.6×
Home value
$464,700
Household income
$101,493
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.
Poverty rate A
2.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B+
$101,493
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
38.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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).
North Arlington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 85/100 (A) · 2.1%
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $101,493
Bachelor's+ share: 73/100 (B) · 38.6%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
How does North Arlington compare to other US cities?
North Arlington measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value83% 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 North Arlington 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 North Arlington near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, North Arlington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares North Arlington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#362 of 659
45th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#246 of 672
63rd percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#415 of 680
38th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#382 of 686
44th 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
79th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How North Arlington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$464,70017th percentilemore affordable than 17% 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
North Arlington's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,150 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,400 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.6×, North Arlington sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,150 of 15,516 and #2,400 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
$101,493North Arlington, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context North Arlington, 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 North Arlington, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,368
Median Income
$101,493
Median Home Value
$464,700
Median Age
39.6
Poverty Rate
2.1%
Labor force participation
65.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.6%
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
North Arlington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,400 residents
2021
16,362 residents
2022
16,351 residents
2023
16,476 residents
2024
16,601 residents
2025
16,601 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
12
4
8
$1.3M
2020
49
0
49
$5.6M
2021
49
0
49
$1.7M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.1%
Carpool
6.9%
Public Transit
13.0%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
10.7%
Other
3.9%
Based on 8,721 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 North Arlington. 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 North Arlington 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 North Arlington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How North Arlington 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 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.