City safety & data profile
SpringdaleNJ
Springdale, NJ is a 15K-resident city in Camden County with a median household income of $164,796.
Camden County, New Jersey. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Springdale, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Springdale has a population larger than 25% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $493,900.
Data updated 2026-09-03
- 15K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 26%
- By size
- $164,796
- Median income (place)
- $493,900
- Median home (place)
- 7.5%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Springdale
Springdale posts a median household income higher than 95% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.
- Top 5%
- by median income, US cities
Where Springdale income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$164,796 Top 5% higher than 95% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in NJ
Population among 151 NJ places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Newark
Newark, NJ
281,944 residents
- Jersey City
Jersey City, NJ
264,290 residents
- Paterson
Paterson, NJ
147,754 residents
- Elizabeth
Elizabeth, NJ
129,007 residents
- Trenton 89,620
Trenton, NJ
89,620 residents
- Toms River 88,791
Toms River, NJ
88,791 residents
- Clifton 86,334
Clifton, NJ
86,334 residents
- Camden 76,119
Camden, NJ
76,119 residents
- Passaic 71,085
Passaic, NJ
71,085 residents
- Union City 69,156
Union City, NJ
69,156 residents
What this shows Newark is the largest NJ city on this list; Short Hills leads median income.
Highest median incomes in NJ
Median household income among the same 151-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Short Hills
Short Hills, NJ
$250,001 median
- Springfield
Springfield, NJ
$250,001 median
- Upper Montcl…
Upper Montclair, NJ
$250,001 median
- Franklin Lakes
Franklin Lakes, NJ
$235,795 median
- Westfield
Westfield, NJ
$232,629 median
- Glen Rock
Glen Rock, NJ
$215,096 median
- Robertsville
Robertsville, NJ
$210,661 median
- Ridgewood
Ridgewood, NJ
$208,211 median
- Tenafly
Tenafly, NJ
$208,200 median
- Martinsville
Martinsville, NJ
$205,000 median
What this shows Short Hills posts the highest place-level median income in NJ; Newark is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Springdale, NJ beyond the headline numbers
Springdale sits inside Camden County, New Jersey, at roughly 39.88°N, -74.97°W. Population 14,518, $164,796 median household income. Median home value $493,900, median rent $879. Poverty rate 7.5%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
At 7.5%, poverty in Springdale, NJ runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
Housing is inexpensive against local pay -- the median home in Springdale runs about 3.0 years of median household income, in the cheapest quarter of reporting cities.
28.3% of Springdale workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.
Among the CDC measures on this page, frequent mental distress departs furthest from its peer median: 12% in Springdale, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
4.3% of Springdale workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
At 47.1 years, Springdale's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Springdale from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Camden County): Springdale's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 7.5% -40% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 6.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 70.5% |
| Work From Home | 28.3% |
| Public Transit | 4.3% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
What alerts and safety updates affect Springdale?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Springdale right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
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Springdale: no area-tagged alerts on record — state hubs carry the live CAP stream.
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Frequently Asked Questions 5
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Springdale, both outside New Jersey so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside NJ (7.5% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside NJ ($164,796 here).
Compare Springdale with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Springdale's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
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Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Camden County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.