West Long Branch, NJ population, income and ZIP codes

West Long Branch borough is a mid-size town in New Jersey, with 8,576 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #191 of 700 ranked by population — larger than 72% of them. The median age here is 30.4 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 West Long Branch borough earn a median of $123,661 a year, 57.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 16% above 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 2.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in West Long Branch borough is valued at $631,300, 108.1% above the national figure and 53% above the $412,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,936 a month, 37.7% above the national figure, or roughly $23,232 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 71.5% 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.