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Port Morris, NJ

Port Morris's Census ACS profile: residents, income, housing, and the joined public-record layers available for this place.

1,141
Residents
$65,070
Median income
$391,400
Median home
$2,132
Median rent (state)
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Place dossier plate

Sheet NJ-PORT-MORRIS-NJ · Port Morris, NJ 1,141 pop · income 43rd pct

POP-VILLAGE · INC-MID · COL-ABOVE · SAFE-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · HOME-MID · BOOK-UNK

  • POP-VILLAGE 1,141
  • INC-MID $65,070
  • COL-ABOVE 108.8
  • SAFE-UNK Safety pending
  • RANK-MID 43rd
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Elkhart
  • HOME-MID $391,400
  • BOOK-UNK Tracts pending

Nearest income peer: Elkhart, TX (+ $1 income $)

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 Port Morris

Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Port Morris on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.

median HH income

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.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-08

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Nationwide peers by population, income

Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Port Morris 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: 1,141.

4 peers

Similar household income

Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS median household income. This city: $65,070. Population peers are excluded.

4 peers

Port Morris - the verdict

Nationally, Port Morris sits in the 43rd percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.

43rd
percentile, household income
77th
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: Port Morris, NJ

Port Morris is a small town in New Jersey, home to 1,141 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Port Morris brings in $65,070 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.6%. Typical homes in Port Morris are valued around $391,400, and the median resident age is 37.1 years. Educational attainment runs 15.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 45.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.

New Jersey carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New Jersey scores 108.8 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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). Commute times here average 32.2 minutes, with 61.5% driving alone and 14.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Port Morris'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 work and mobility 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 Port Morris, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares. No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.

Question 1

What does the journey to work look like in Port Morris?

Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 61.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 32.2 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.

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2. Comparison shortlist

Which cities make useful reference points for Port Morris?

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 Oxford (1,140 residents, $77,188 income); Elmer (1,152 residents, $92,757 income); Hampton (1,127 residents, $77,222 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Peridot, AZ (1,141 residents); Metcalfe, MS (1,141 residents); Hettinger, ND (1,141 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.

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3. Housing and income

How far does income reach against housing in Port Morris?

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 6.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.

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Population

1,141 residents

Micro place (under 10k)

Median Household Income

$65,070 /yr

Below median income · poverty 8.6% (Above-median poverty)

Cost of Living Index (state)

108.8 (US=100)

High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New Jersey average

City profile score · Port Morris, NJ

31/100

4 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 D
8.6%

Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.

Household income D
$65,070

Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.

Bachelor's+ share F
15.4%

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).

Port Morris profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions) 4-axis radar comparing 1 series across Poverty rate, Household income, Bachelor's+ share, Cost of living. Poverty rateHousehold incomeBachelor's+ shareCost of living 31 F
Port Morris profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)
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  • Poverty rate: 45/100 (D) · 8.6%
  • Household income: 42/100 (D) · $65,070
  • Bachelor's+ share: 21/100 (F) · 15.4%
  • Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index

How does Port Morris compare to other US cities?

Port Morris measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.

Household income 43% higher than other cities
Home value 77% pricier than other cities
Median rent 94% 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 Port Morris 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 Port Morris near the bottom of New Jersey's cities

Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Port Morris ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Port Morris only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.

Median Household Income
#597 of 659
9th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#347 of 672
48th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#126 of 680
81st percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#638 of 686
7th 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.

43rdIncome percentile
Gauge source note

43rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.

How Port Morris's home value compares nationally

Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)

$391,400 23rd percentile more affordable than 23% of 15,600 US cities

Show national distribution $0–$25,000: 5 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $25,000–$50,000: 54 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $50,000–$75,000: 352 US cities (2%). Below this entry. $75,000–$100,000: 1,086 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $100,000–$125,000: 1,516 US cities (10%). Below this entry. $125,000–$150,000: 1,170 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $150,000–$175,000: 1,278 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $175,000–$200,000: 1,229 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $200,000–$225,000: 1,035 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $225,000–$250,000: 976 US cities (6%). Below this entry. $250,000–$275,000: 754 US cities (5%). Below this entry. $275,000–$300,000: 712 US cities (5%). Below this entry. $300,000–$325,000: 521 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $325,000–$350,000: 526 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $350,000–$375,000: 465 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $375,000–$400,000: 393 US cities (3%). This entry sits in this band. $400,000–$425,000: 317 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $425,000–$450,000: 300 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $450,000–$475,000: 307 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $475,000–$500,000: 250 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $500,000–$525,000: 160 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $525,000–$550,000: 156 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $550,000–$575,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $575,000–$600,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $600,000–$625,000: 163 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $625,000–$650,000: 167 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $650,000–$675,000: 135 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $675,000–$700,000: 101 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $700,000–$725,000: 95 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $725,000–$750,000: 71 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $750,000–$775,000: 65 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $775,000–$800,000: 70 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $800,000–$825,000: 57 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $825,000–$850,000: 67 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $850,000–$875,000: 60 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $875,000–$900,000: 58 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $900,000–$925,000: 47 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $925,000–$950,000: 37 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $950,000–$975,000: 31 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $975,000–$1,000,000: 470 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $1,000,000–$1,025,000: 0 US cities (0%). Above this entry. Port Morris $0 $1,025,000 every US city, bucketed by value

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

Port Morris's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.0×

ACS median home value divided by median household income.

Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,107 of 15,516
More affordable than 9% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,463 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)

At 6.0×, Port Morris sits in the pressured band: national rank #14,107 of 15,516 and #10,463 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000). Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.

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

$65,070 Port Morris, NJ median household income (Census ACS)

Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Household income distribution - Port Morris, NJ Port Morris, NJ's median household income ($65,070) against the U.S. national quintile-share pattern. The Lorenz curve and quintile bars are national context, not Port Morris, NJ-specific shares. $ Household Income Distribution Port Morris, NJ median $65,070/yr, vs. U.S. national quintile pattern QUINTILE SHARE OF AGGREGATE INCOME Lowest 20% 3.4% Second 20% 9.2% Middle 20% 15.1% Fourth 20% 23.2% Top 20% 49.1% LORENZ CURVE cumulative income vs. population 100% 0% 100% pop. 0%
Port Morris, 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 Port Morris, NJ.

Key socioeconomic indicators

Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+) 15.4%

Census ACS S1501, educational attainment

Poverty rate (households below FPL) 8.6%

Census ACS S1701, poverty status

Labor force participation (adults 16+) 45.8%

Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force

Population
1,141
Median Income
$65,070
Median Home Value
$391,400
Median Age
37.1
Poverty Rate
8.6%
Labor force participation
45.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.4%

Commute Patterns

Commute source

How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023

Average Commute Time
32.2 minutes
Drive Alone
61.5%
Carpool
24.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
14.5%

Based on 408 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 Port Morris. 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 Port Morris 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 Port Morris sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.

How Port Morris 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.

City Population Median Household Income
Port Morris (this city) 1,141 $65,070
Oxford 1,140 $77,188
Elmer 1,152 $92,757
Hampton 1,127 $77,222
Primary sources on this page

Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, 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.

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