Wanaque, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

Wanaque borough is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 11,162 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #128 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 81% of them. The median age here is 47.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Wanaque borough earn a median of $112,326 a year, 43% above the national figure of $78,538 and 5% 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 5.9% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Wanaque borough is valued at $366,400, 20.8% above the national figure and 11% below the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,885 a month, 34.1% above the national figure, or roughly $22,620 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.1% 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 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.