Silver Lake (Essex Co.), NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Silver Lake CDP (Essex County) is a small town in New Jersey, with 4,034 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #338 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 51% of them. The median age here is 41.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Silver Lake CDP (Essex County) earn a median of $86,615 a year, 10.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 19% below the $106,926 median for the 543 New Jersey cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 10.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Silver Lake CDP (Essex County) is valued at $483,700, 59.4% above the national figure and 17% above the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,501 a month, 6.8% above the national figure, or roughly $18,012 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 60.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.