Brooklawn, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Brooklawn borough is a small town in New Jersey, with 1,788 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #479 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 44.4 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 Brooklawn borough earn a median of $55,882 a year, 28.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 48% below 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 10.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Brooklawn borough is valued at $148,700, 51% below the national figure and 64% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,507 a month, 7.2% above the national figure, or roughly $18,084 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 32.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Brooklawn borough is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 32.4% of median income while homes cost only 2.7× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.