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SheetNJ-WHITE-MEADOW-LAKE-NJ · White Meadow Lake, NJ 8,706 pop · income 94th 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 White Meadow Lake
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest White Meadow Lake on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Anthony · lowest
33,141
Anthony · lowest
33,141 median HH income
18.0% of the leader · rank #1
Granite Hills · near
149,938
Granite Hills · near
149,938 median HH income
81.6% of the leader · rank #2
White Meadow… · this city
150,042
White Meadow… · this city
150,042 median HH income
81.7% of the leader · rank #3
Plessis · near
150,056
Plessis · near
150,056 median HH income
81.7% of the leader · rank #4
Kingstowne · near
150,114
Kingstowne · near
150,114 median HH income
81.7% of the leader · rank #5
Day Valley · near
150,256
Day Valley · near
150,256 median HH income
81.8% of the leader · rank #6
Montvale · highest
183,664
Montvale · highest
183,664 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 White Meadow Lake 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: 8,706.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, White Meadow Lake lands in the 94th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
94th
percentile, household income
81st
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: White Meadow Lake, NJ
White Meadow Lake is a small town in New Jersey, home to 8,706 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. White Meadow Lake households earn a median of $150,042 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.0%. Home values in White Meadow Lake run a median of $441,000, and the median resident age is 40.6 years. Educational attainment runs 57.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 69.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across New Jersey, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 White Meadow Lake'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 work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For White Meadow Lake, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for White Meadow Lake?
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Audubon (8,699 residents, $116,900 income); North Haledon (8,757 residents, $131,810 income); Montvale (8,625 residents, $183,664 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Shelby, OH (8,706 residents); Lake Villa, IL (8,707 residents); Port Jervis, NY (8,709 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.
What does the journey to work look like in White Meadow Lake?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 67.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in White Meadow Lake?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.0%, 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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
108.8 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New Jersey average
B
City profile score · White Meadow Lake, NJ
73/100
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.
Household income A+
$150,042
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
57.6%
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).
White Meadow Lake profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 96/100 (A+) · $150,042
Poverty rate: 93/100 (A+) · 1.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 90/100 (A+) · 57.6%
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
How does White Meadow Lake compare to other US cities?
White Meadow Lake measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income94% higher than other cities
Home value81% 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 White Meadow Lake 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 White Meadow Lake near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, White Meadow Lake ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares White Meadow Lake only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#129 of 659
80th percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#277 of 672
59th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#506 of 680
25th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#189 of 686
72nd 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
94th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How White Meadow Lake's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$441,00019th percentilemore affordable than 19% 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
White Meadow Lake's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,362 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,423 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, White Meadow Lake sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,362 of 15,516 and #5,423 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
$150,042White Meadow Lake, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context White Meadow Lake, 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 White Meadow Lake, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)57.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,706
Median Income
$150,042
Median Home Value
$441,000
Median Age
40.6
Poverty Rate
1.0%
Labor force participation
69.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
57.6%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
67.8%
Carpool
4.5%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
26.8%
Based on 4,624 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 White Meadow Lake. 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 White Meadow Lake 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 White Meadow Lake sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How White Meadow Lake 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, 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.