Rutgers University-Busch Campus, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Rutgers University-Busch Campus CDP is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 5,747 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #270 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 61% of them. The median age here is 19.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Rutgers University-Busch Campus CDP earn a median of $118,750 a year, 51.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 11% above the $106,926 median for the 543 New Jersey cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 17.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Rutgers University-Busch Campus CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $2,031 a month, 44.5% above the national figure, or roughly $24,372 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 19.9 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. Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not.

The Census withheld home value for Rutgers University-Busch Campus 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.