Cape May Court House, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Cape May Court House CDP is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 5,375 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #279 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 60% of them. The median age here is 44.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Cape May Court House CDP earn a median of $74,503 a year, 5.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 30% below 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 15.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Cape May Court House CDP is valued at $355,500, 17.2% above the national figure and 14% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,389 a month, 1.2% below the national figure, or roughly $16,668 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 66.7% 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.

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.