Pleasantville, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Pleasantville city is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 20,604 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #54 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 35 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 Pleasantville city earn a median of $52,403 a year, 33.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 51% below the $106,926 median for the 543 New Jersey cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 23.3% 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 Pleasantville city is valued at $177,700, 41.4% below the national figure and 57% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,328 a month, 5.5% below the national figure, or roughly $15,936 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 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. 44.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Pleasantville city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.4% of median income while homes cost only 3.4× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.