Leisure Village, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Leisure Village CDP is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 6,307 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #245 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 65% of them. The median age here is 54.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Leisure Village CDP earn a median of $42,705 a year, 45.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 60% below 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 39.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Leisure Village CDP is valued at $127,000, 58.1% below the national figure and 69% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,725 a month, 22.7% above the national figure, or roughly $20,700 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 48.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 61.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Leisure Village CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 48.5% of median income while homes cost only 3× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. A median age of 54.9 puts Leisure Village 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.