Menlo Park Terrace, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Menlo Park Terrace CDP is a small town in New Jersey, with 2,952 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #391 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 44% of them. The median age here is 40.1 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 Menlo Park Terrace CDP earn a median of $111,111 a year, 41.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 4% above 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 6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Menlo Park Terrace CDP is valued at $379,100, 25% above the national figure and 8% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,879 a month, 33.6% above the national figure, or roughly $22,548 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.3% 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 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 89.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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.

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.