What is the population of Hoboken city?

Hoboken city has 58,340 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #15 of 700 in New Jersey.

What is the median household income in Hoboken city?

Median household income in Hoboken city is $176,943 a year, 125.3% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Hoboken city?

Median gross rent is $2,819 a month and the median home value is $872,100, so rent absorbs about 19.1% of median household income.

Is Hoboken city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Hoboken city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Hoboken, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Hoboken, New Jersey (Hoboken, NJ — Census place “Hoboken city”) is 58,340 residents, ranking #15 of 700 places in New Jersey. Median household income is $176,943, the median home is worth $872,100 and median gross rent runs $2,819 a month. Looking for the Hoboken New Jersey ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Hoboken, NJ: 07030.

Population: 58,340Hoboken city residents
Median household income: $176,943Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $872,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $2,819Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 31.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 34.1%Owner-occupied households

Hoboken ZIP codes (New Jersey)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Hoboken.

The Hoboken NJ ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

07030

What the numbers mean in Hoboken city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Hoboken city median would spend about 19.1% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 4.9× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 7.1% of residents and 34.1% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Hoboken city, NJ in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Hoboken city is a small city in New Jersey, with 58,340 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #15 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 97% of them. The median age here is 31.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Hoboken city earn a median of $176,943 a year, 125.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 65% above 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 7.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Hoboken city is valued at $872,100, 187.4% above the national figure and 111% above the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,819 a month, 100.5% above the national figure, or roughly $33,828 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.1% 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 4.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 34.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Hoboken city?: Hoboken city has 58,340 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #15 of 700 in New Jersey.
What is the median household income in Hoboken city?: Median household income in Hoboken city is $176,943 a year, 125.3% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Hoboken city?: Median gross rent is $2,819 a month and the median home value is $872,100, so rent absorbs about 19.1% of median household income.
Is Hoboken city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Hoboken city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Hoboken city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.