New Milford, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

New Milford borough is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 16,882 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #70 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 90% of them. The median age here is 39.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 New Milford borough earn a median of $113,513 a year, 44.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 6% 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 4.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in New Milford borough is valued at $554,800, 82.9% above the national figure and 34% above the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,722 a month, 22.5% above the national figure, or roughly $20,664 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.2% 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. 62.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.