Branchville, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Branchville borough is a very small community in New Jersey, with 724 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #580 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 17% of them. The median age here is 48.5 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 Branchville borough earn a median of $124,167 a year, 58.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 16% 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 4.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Branchville borough is valued at $299,600, 1.3% below the national figure and 27% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,607 a month, 14.3% above the national figure, or roughly $19,284 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.5% 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 2.4×, 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. 60.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 724 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Branchville borough against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.