08105Camden, New Jersey

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 08105.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity5556th of 6,210 published ZIP areas32
Schools3588th of 4,422 published ZIP areas27
Housing affordability4810th of 6,685 published ZIP areas64
ClimateTop 46% of 6,789 published ZIP areas71
Physical resilienceTop 27% of 6,709 published ZIP areas77
AccessTop 8% of 6,791 published ZIP areas99
Economic stability4823rd of 6,742 published ZIP areas47
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 8.0% and the Opportunity signal places 08105 in the bottom 11%.

In the public schools here, 6% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 12.1 students for every teacher.

A major airport is 9 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
26,483
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$45,974
Bottom 11% nationally
Density
10,209/sq mi
2.6 sq mi of land
Median age
30.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Camden
New Jersey
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Nearest major airport
PHL
9 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$121,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 8.0% is lower than 1% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 1.5% over the past year, to 27,228 employed residents.

Median household income of $45,974 is below 89% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,532$45,974Bottom 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,500$20,285Bottom 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate26.1%Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute24.7 minBottom 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher8.5%Bottom 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment27,228Bottom 28%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.0%Top 36%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.5%Top 8%June 2026
Labor force29,592Bottom 30%June 2026
Labor force participation65.5%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,730Top 34%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,310Top 35%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-2.5%Bottom 1%June 2026
Unemployment rate8.0%Top 1%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202448k36k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $45,974 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides158,280$29,800
Registered Nurses73,790$101,180
Fast Food and Counter Workers69,080$32,220
General and Operations Managers68,730$121,630
Retail Salespersons63,990$34,810
Cashiers54,100$33,050

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Camden, NJ, the city containing this ZIP code.

6% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 23% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.1 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
6.2%
Bottom 14% in New Jersey
Reading proficiency
22.8%
Bottom 8% in New Jersey
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Mastery Schools of Camden Inc.Mastery Schools of Camden Inc.2,87314.76%24%
Camden's Promise Charter School · charterCamden's Promise Charter School2,45712.25%28%
Octavius V. Catto Community Family SchoolCamden City School District59310.45%18%
Thomas H. Dudley Family SchoolCamden City School District54911.75%20%
Dr. Henry H. Davis Elementary SchoolCamden City School District51510.110%14%
Eastside High SchoolCamden City School District5129.710%10%
Veterans Memorial Family SchoolCamden City School District4749.38%19%

78.1% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against New Jersey’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,320 takes 34% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.6 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
34.5%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,320
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$121,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.63Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate40.2%Bottom 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4088,499Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$63$1,320Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,559$121,100Bottom 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income34.5%Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.7%Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 44.1 inches, including 23.1 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 44, in the Good band, and about 4 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, 9.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index65.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation44.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall23.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10042024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
65
90th percentile index
Days above 100
4
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

77 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, hurricane and strong wind.

Winter weatherModerate
Strong windModerate
EarthquakeModerate
HurricaneModerate
Coastal floodingModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, lightning, ice storm, inland flooding, cold wave, wildfire, tornado, landslide, hail.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Camden County records 2.8 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 4.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 27.5 per 100,000 residents in Camden County.

Homicide
2.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
4.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
27.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
5.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Camden County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 08105 rather than 08105 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 9 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL9 mi12,000 ft
Atlantic City IntlACY44 mi10,001 ft
Newark Liberty IntlEWR71 mi9,999 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

08105 vs Camden

How this ZIP area compares with Camden as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

08105
Camden
Median household income
$45,974
vs
$40,546
Per capita income
$20,285
vs
$20,566
Population density
10,209/sq mi
vs
8,016/sq mi
Median home value
$121,100
vs
$112,000
Median gross rent
$1,320
vs
$1,226
Homeownership rate
40.2%
vs
34.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
8.5%
vs
10.1%
Poverty rate
26.1%
vs
30.2%
Median age
30.9
vs
33.3

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.