Atlantic Highlands, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Atlantic Highlands borough is a small town in New Jersey, with 4,409 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #322 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 54% of them. The median age here is 47.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Atlantic Highlands borough earn a median of $125,438 a year, 59.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 17% above the $106,926 median for the 543 New Jersey cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 4.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Atlantic Highlands borough is valued at $615,300, 102.8% above the national figure and 49% above the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,900 a month, 35.1% above the national figure, or roughly $22,800 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 70.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.