Northeast · New Jersey · pop 317K
Newark, NJ
Weak 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 $1,530 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $788 left over.
Expect summer highs near 86°F, winter lows around 26°F, and about 206 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: home prices run high relative to local incomes, so buying may take longer than elsewhere.
The Newark fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,403/mo
Typical rent
$1,800/mo
Home value ÷ income
9.1×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,350/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,800/mo
- Median home value
- $420,000
- Median household income
- $46,000
- Population
- 317,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 6.5%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.8%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 830
- Property crime rate
- 2,100
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 86°F
- Avg. winter low
- 26°F
- Sunny days / year
- 206
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈5/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈48/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈11/yr
- Annual rain
- 46"
- Annual snow
- 25"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+48
- Int'l airport
- ≈5 mi
- Walkability
- 79/100
- Disaster risk
- 40/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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