Mays Landing, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Mays Landing CDP is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 6,178 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #254 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 63% of them. The median age here is 37.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Mays Landing CDP earn a median of $80,777 a year, 2.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 24% 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 3.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mays Landing CDP is valued at $236,500, 22.1% below the national figure and 43% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,150 a month, 18.2% below the national figure, or roughly $13,800 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.1% 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 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 73.4% 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.