Northeast · New Jersey · pop 297K
Jersey City, NJ
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in NJ, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,191 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,998 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $511 left over.
Expect summer highs near 85°F, winter lows around 27°F, and about 207 sunny days a year.
Reported crime rates sit below most cities in this dataset.
Tradeoff: home prices run high relative to local incomes, so buying may take longer than elsewhere.
The Jersey City fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,680/mo
Typical rent
$2,350/mo
Home value ÷ income
7.0×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,950/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $2,350/mo
- Median home value
- $600,000
- Median household income
- $86,000
- Population
- 297,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.8%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.4%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 340
- Property crime rate
- 1,500
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 85°F
- Avg. winter low
- 27°F
- Sunny days / year
- 207
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈4/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈46/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈10/yr
- Annual rain
- 47"
- Annual snow
- 24"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+40
- Int'l airport
- ≈8 mi
- Walkability
- 87/100
- Disaster risk
- 42/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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