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SheetNJ-POINT-PLEASANT-NJ · Point Pleasant, NJ 19,158 pop · income 82nd 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 Point Pleasant
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Point Pleasant on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Winchester · lowest
57,653
Winchester · lowest
57,653 median HH income
36.6% of the leader · rank #1
Orcutt · near
108,682
Orcutt · near
108,682 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #2
Point Pleasant · this city
108,713
Point Pleasant · this city
108,713 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #3
Linntown · near
108,716
Linntown · near
108,716 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #4
Graton · near
108,750
Graton · near
108,750 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #5
San Juan Baut… · near
108,750
San Juan Baut… · near
108,750 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #6
Cinco Ranch · highest
157,395
Cinco Ranch · highest
157,395 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 Point Pleasant 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: 19,158.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Point Pleasant - the verdict
Point Pleasant ranks in the 82nd percentile for household income and the 85th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
82nd
percentile, household income
86th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
85th
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: Point Pleasant, NJ
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 19,158 residents in Point Pleasant, a small town within New Jersey. The typical household in Point Pleasant brings in $108,713 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Typical homes in Point Pleasant are valued around $523,400, and the median resident age is 44.9 years. Educational attainment runs 48.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 70.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 57 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 36% from five years earlier. Point Pleasant reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 513.3 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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,132 monthly. 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 Point Pleasant'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 schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Point Pleasant, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Point Pleasant?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 48.5% 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.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Point Pleasant?
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 75.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Point Pleasant?
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Iselin (19,151 residents, $112,615 income); Tinton Falls (19,252 residents, $113,844 income); Hawthorne (19,472 residents, $118,093 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Dixon, CA (19,158 residents); Ferndale, MI (19,156 residents); Cinco Ranch, TX (19,139 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Is Point Pleasant growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +741 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 57 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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 Point Pleasant?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, 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. 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.
Household income
$108,713
Home value
$523,400
Value / income
4.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Point Pleasant?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 513.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 77% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
438.5
Violent rate
74.7
Total reported rate
513.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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
2.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A-
48.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$108,713
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B+
75 /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.
Point Pleasant profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 83/100 (A-) · 48.5%
Household income: 81/100 (A-) · $108,713
Violent crime: 77/100 (B+) · 75 /100k
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where Point Pleasant sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Point Pleasant'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 - Point Pleasant highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Point Pleasant, NJ (this city): home $523,400, crime 513/100k
Dixon, CA : home $575,600, crime 1,562/100k
Ferndale, MI : home $233,600, crime 1,733/100k
Orange, TX : home $147,200, crime 1,643/100k
Winchester, KY : home $180,400, crime 2,961/100k
Central Point, OR : home $357,700, crime 1,146/100k
Hawthorne, NJ : home $499,200, crime 895/100k
Rutherford, NJ : home $580,800, crime 861/100k
Harrison, NJ : home $450,800, crime 1,987/100k
How does Point Pleasant compare to other US cities?
Point Pleasant measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income82% higher than other cities
Home value86% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety85% 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: Point Pleasant ranks #54 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 Point Pleasant 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 Point Pleasant near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Point Pleasant ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Point Pleasant only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#303 of 659
54th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#200 of 672
70th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#424 of 680
36th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#277 of 686
59th 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
82nd percentile nationally for median household income · 85th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Point Pleasant's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Point Pleasant'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 Point Pleasant's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$523,40014th percentilemore affordable than 14% 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
Point Pleasant's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,582 of 15,516
More affordable than 19% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,520 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.8×, Point Pleasant sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,582 of 15,516 and #2,520 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
$108,713Point Pleasant, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Point Pleasant, 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 Point Pleasant, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)70.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,158
Median Income
$108,713
Median Home Value
$523,400
Median Age
44.9
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
70.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
513.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
74.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
438.5
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Point Pleasant's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
18,971 residents
2021
19,239 residents
2022
19,413 residents
2023
19,499 residents
2024
19,628 residents
2025
19,712 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
57
housing units authorized
Single-Family
57
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
42
42
0
$15.1M
2020
67
53
14
$8.7M
2021
51
51
0
$8.1M
2022
25
25
0
$6.3M
2023
34
34
0
$8.5M
2024
57
57
0
$18.3M
Permit volume increased 36% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.7%
Carpool
4.9%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
12.1%
Other
4.4%
Based on 10,915 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 Point Pleasant. 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 Point Pleasant 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 Point Pleasant sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Point Pleasant 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.