United States
2025 income · Census CPS ASEC 2026
Household money income in New Jersey
What counts as household income
Add up the money income of everyone in the household, received on a regular basis before taxes and other deductions: wages and salaries, self-employment income, Social Security, pensions, interest, and similar payments. Leave out capital gains and noncash benefits such as food assistance, health benefits, and subsidized housing. Census money-income definition.
Each tick is one household in 100, from lowest to highest 2025 income. The curve above them is what each one made, on a scale that spreads out the lower incomes. Incomes above the 95th percentile are not drawn.
The same income, three ways
Each card is its own line of 100 households. Your tick moves because the crowd changes.
New Jersey
All New Jersey households
New Jersey prices
At US-average prices
New Jersey among the 50 states and D.C.
#5 of 51 by median household income.
US $87,288NJ
MS $58kMA $118k
- New Jersey median
- $111,936
- Gap to the US median
- +$24,648
- New Jersey median at US-average prices
- $102,878
- Top 10% of New Jersey households starts at
- $353,605
Census’s published estimate is $111,400, with a standard error of $4,449.
The US median is $87,288, so the New Jersey median is 28.2% above it.
Prices in New Jersey were 108.8 in 2024 on the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s regional price parities (US = 100), so its median buys about what $102,878 does at US-average prices. With every US household adjusted for its own state’s prices, the US median is $88,213.
Nationally, the top 10% starts at $261,248.
Source: Census CPS ASEC 2026 · income year 2025 · 1,068 New Jersey households in the sample (53,344 US) · above the 95th percentile not ranked · prices: BEA regional price parities, 2024 · SHA-256 fe819d0d…7d93
New Jersey household income ladder
| Percentile | New Jersey | United States |
|---|---|---|
| p10 | $25,020 | $20,005 |
| p25 | $55,960 | $43,708 |
| p50 (median) | $111,936 | $87,288 |
| p75 | $203,926 | $159,510 |
| p90 | $353,605 | $261,248 |
| p95 | $479,990 | $354,000 |
Reading the upper percentiles: this table stops at p95. State samples are smaller than the national sample, so treat positions near the top as broad bands, not exact cutoffs. The calculator does not compute replicate-weight confidence intervals.
Compare nearby states
Bordering states
States with the nearest medians
- New Hampshire$112,000
- Washington$112,690
- Maryland$115,507
- Washington, D.C.$107,517
- Massachusetts$118,441
- Hawaii$105,002
US household income percentiles · Household income by age · Salary percentiles · Every state side by side · Changes since 2024