Barnegat, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Barnegat CDP is a small town in New Jersey, with 3,367 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #363 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 48% of them. The median age here is 43.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Barnegat CDP earn a median of $105,091 a year, 33.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $106,926 median for the 543 New Jersey cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 2.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Barnegat CDP is valued at $398,900, 31.5% above the national figure and 3% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,870 a month, 33% above the national figure, or roughly $22,440 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 83.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.