State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in New Jersey
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,720 ± $7 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 51.6% ± 0.5 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 26.8% ± 0.4 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $68,800. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | $1,720 ± $7 | 51.6% | 26.8% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in New Jersey
- Atlantic County$1,376 median gross rent · 56.9% rent burden
- Bergen County$1,914 median gross rent · 50.8% rent burden
- Burlington County$1,745 median gross rent · 52.5% rent burden
- Camden County$1,402 median gross rent · 54.5% rent burden
- Cape May County$1,360 median gross rent · 55% rent burden
- Cumberland County$1,282 median gross rent · 56.2% rent burden
- Essex County$1,531 median gross rent · 55.1% rent burden
- Gloucester County$1,531 median gross rent · 55% rent burden
- Hudson County$1,894 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
- Hunterdon County$1,687 median gross rent · 47.3% rent burden
- Mercer County$1,623 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
- Middlesex County$1,871 median gross rent · 48.1% rent burden
- Monmouth County$1,827 median gross rent · 52.7% rent burden
- Morris County$1,904 median gross rent · 45.2% rent burden
- Ocean County$1,755 median gross rent · 58.3% rent burden
- Passaic County$1,621 median gross rent · 57% rent burden
- Salem County$1,253 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
- Somerset County$2,033 median gross rent · 49% rent burden
- Sussex County$1,585 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
- Union County$1,730 median gross rent · 51.4% rent burden
- Warren County$1,409 median gross rent · 47.6% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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