Barnegat Light, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Barnegat Light borough is a very small community in New Jersey, with 473 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #619 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 11% of them. The median age here is 60.9 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 Barnegat Light borough earn a median of $104,583 a year, 33.2% 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. 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 3.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Barnegat Light borough is valued at $1,105,600, 264.4% above the national figure and 168% above the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 10.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 92.2% 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.

Home values sit at 10.6× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. A median age of 60.9 puts Barnegat Light borough well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

The Census withheld gross rent for Barnegat Light borough because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.