Port Norris, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Port Norris CDP is a small town in New Jersey, with 1,702 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #488 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 30% of them. The median age here is 37.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Port Norris CDP earn a median of $42,635 a year, 45.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 60% 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 14.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Port Norris CDP is valued at $120,100, 60.4% below the national figure and 71% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,715 a month, 22% above the national figure, or roughly $20,580 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 48.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 56.2% 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.

Port Norris CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 48.3% of median income while homes cost only 2.8× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.