Belle Mead, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Belle Mead CDP is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 6,772 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #235 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 66% of them. The median age here is 36.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Belle Mead CDP earn a median of $219,215 a year, 179.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 105% above the $106,926 median for the 543 New Jersey cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 2.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Belle Mead CDP is valued at $777,600, 156.3% above the national figure and 89% above the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,645 a month, 88.1% above the national figure, or roughly $31,740 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.5% 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 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 64.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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.