Montclair State University, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Montclair State University CDP is a small town in New Jersey, with 2,177 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #444 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 36% of them. The median age here is 20 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Montclair State University CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 Poverty reaches an unpublished share of residents here.

The typical owner-occupied home in Montclair State University CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The homeownership rate is not published. 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.

A median age of 20 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent, poverty rate for Montclair State University CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.