Brainards, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Brainards CDP is a very small community in New Jersey, with 172 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #668 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 4% of them. The median age here is 58.2 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 Brainards CDP earn a median of $170,302 a year, 116.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 59% above the $106,926 median for the 543 New Jersey cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Brainards CDP is valued at $121,600, 59.9% below the national figure and 71% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 0.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 76.9% 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.

A median age of 58.2 puts Brainards CDP 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. With 172 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Brainards CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Brainards CDP 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.