08002Cherry Hill Mall, New Jersey

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 08002.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 21% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured70
Housing affordabilityTop 43% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured84
Climate3383rd of 6,789 ZIP areas measured70
Physical resilienceTop 27% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured77
AccessTop 23% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured98
Economic stabilityTop 48% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured61
The quick read

08002 ranks in the top 21% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.7% and median household income of $100,951.

Rent takes 23% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.3 times that income.

A major airport is 12 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
24,015
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$100,951
Top 18% nationally
Density
3,331/sq mi
7.2 sq mi of land
Median age
39.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Cherry Hill Mall
New Jersey
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Nearest major airport
PHL
12 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$331,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.7% is lower than 40% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 1.5% over the past year, to 264,592 employed residents.

48% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 86% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$6,395$100,951Top 18%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,854$51,949Top 17%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.4%Bottom 49%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.9 minTop 44%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher48.3%Top 14%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment264,592Top 18%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.3%Top 32%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.5%Top 8%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force277,677Top 18%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation64.7%Top 34%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,730Top 34%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,310Top 35%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.1%Bottom 6%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.7%Top 40%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024106k94k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $100,951 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 Cherry Hill Mall, NJ, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 15.3 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
1
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
2019-20 school year
Reading proficiency
2019-20 school year
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Joyce Kilmer Elementary SchoolCherry Hill School District41215.315%42%

34.0% 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 →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,974 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.3 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Cost of living
102.4

Prices here run about 2% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
23.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,974
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$331,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index102.4Top 45%of 6,0712023
Home price to income3.28Top 45%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate68.0%Bottom 26%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±45510,330Top 16%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$195$1,974Top 9%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$13,270$331,200Top 29%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.5%Top 19%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.6%Bottom 31%of 33,0282024 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 87°F and January a low of 25°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 42.8 inches.

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.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MT HOLLY S JERSEY AP, 9.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index65.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation42.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low25°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10042024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°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 — they say 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 08002 rather than 08002 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 12 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL12 mi12,000 ft
Atlantic City IntlACY41 mi10,001 ft
Newark Liberty IntlEWR69 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)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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
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.

08002 vs Cherry Hill Mall

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

08002
Cherry Hill Mall
Median household income
$100,951
vs
$103,708
Per capita income
$51,949
vs
$51,404
Population density
3,331/sq mi
vs
3,987/sq mi
Median home value
$331,200
vs
$341,200
Median gross rent
$1,974
vs
$2,132
Homeownership rate
68.0%
vs
71.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
48.3%
vs
47.7%
Poverty rate
10.4%
vs
10.8%
Median age
39.7
vs
37.9

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.