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Place dossier plate
SheetNJ-RUNNEMEDE-NJ · Runnemede, NJ 8,310 pop · income 78th 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 Runnemede
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Runnemede on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pulaski · lowest
45,420
Pulaski · lowest
45,420 median HH income
18.4% of the leader · rank #1
Clovis · near
100,360
Clovis · near
100,360 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #2
Marysville · near
100,362
Marysville · near
100,362 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #3
Runnemede · this city
100,366
Runnemede · this city
100,366 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #4
Carbon Hill · near
100,368
Carbon Hill · near
100,368 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #5
Woodbridge · near
100,370
Woodbridge · near
100,370 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #6
Upper Saddle… · highest
246,719
Upper Saddle… · highest
246,719 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 Runnemede 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: 8,310.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Runnemede - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Runnemede places in the 78th percentile for household income and the 32nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
78th
percentile, household income
48th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
32nd
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: Runnemede, NJ
8,310 people live in Runnemede, New Jersey - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Runnemede households earn a median of $100,366 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.8%. Typical homes in Runnemede are valued around $217,500, and the median resident age is 36.1 years. 25.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 75% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2016.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New Jersey's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). 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 Runnemede'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 work and mobility to population change to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Runnemede, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
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
Which cities make useful reference points for Runnemede?
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Twin Rivers (8,315 residents, $98,831 income); Newton (8,336 residents, $73,679 income); Kenilworth (8,339 residents, $126,295 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mount Joy, PA (8,310 residents); Trinidad, CO (8,309 residents); North Madison, OH (8,309 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Runnemede?
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 2016.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 12% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Runnemede?
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 76.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Runnemede 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 +127 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 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 Runnemede?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.8%, 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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
Household income
$100,366
Home value
$217,500
Value / income
2.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the education layer cover for Runnemede?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 25.0% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
4
Bachelor's degree+
25.0%
Poverty estimate
6.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 B+
$100,366
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B+
82 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
6.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
25.0%
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.
Runnemede profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,366
Violent crime: 75/100 (B+) · 82 /100k
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 49/100 (D) · 25.0%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where Runnemede sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Runnemede'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 - Runnemede highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Runnemede, NJ (this city): home $217,500, crime 2,017/100k
Mount Joy, PA : home $241,300, crime 431/100k
Trinidad, CO : home $196,900, crime 3,743/100k
Senatobia, MS : home $208,000, crime 1,840/100k
Pulaski, TN : home $168,200, crime 2,827/100k
Newton, NJ : home $282,300, crime 890/100k
Kenilworth, NJ : home $521,100, crime 870/100k
Oradell, NJ : home $702,400, crime 216/100k
How does Runnemede compare to other US cities?
Here's how Runnemede stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value48% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety32% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to New Jersey alone, Runnemede ranks #185 of 238 New Jersey cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Runnemede 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 Runnemede near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Runnemede ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Runnemede only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#379 of 659
42nd percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#601 of 672
11th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#175 of 680
74th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#535 of 686
22nd 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
78th percentile nationally for median household income · 32nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Runnemede's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Runnemede'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 Runnemede's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$217,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 52% 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
Runnemede's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,309 of 15,516
More affordable than 85% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,177 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.2×, Runnemede sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,309 of 15,516 and #2,177 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$100,366Runnemede, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Runnemede, 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 Runnemede, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,310
Median Income
$100,366
Median Home Value
$217,500
Median Age
36.1
Poverty Rate
6.8%
Labor force participation
64.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
25.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2016.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
82.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1934.8
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
Runnemede's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,316 residents
2021
8,314 residents
2022
8,325 residents
2023
8,384 residents
2024
8,416 residents
2025
8,443 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4
4
0
$0.5M
2020
1
1
0
$0.1M
2021
1
1
0
$0.2M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
1
1
0
$0.2M
Permit volume decreased 75% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.1%
Carpool
8.6%
Public Transit
1.5%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
10.1%
Other
1.5%
Based on 4,271 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 Runnemede. 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 Runnemede 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 Runnemede sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Runnemede 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.