Collingswood, New Jersey

Area Profile

14,205 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Collingswood, in Camden County.

63out of 100
Area Score
Top 35% of 4,196 profiles measured

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How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
OpportunityTop 31% of 4,199 cities measured66
Schools2,537th of 4,162 cities measured41
Growth3,503rd of 4,224 cities measured32
Housing affordabilityTop 38% of 4,218 cities measured71
ClimateTop 46% of 4,225 cities measured71
Physical resilienceTop 28% of 4,226 cities measured77
AccessTop 4% of 4,226 cities measured100
Economic stabilityTop 35% of 4,226 cities measured65
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.1% and median household income $90,184, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Camden County, NJ, which contains Collingswood, rather than for Collingswood alone.

In the public schools here, 37% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 11.9 students for every teacher. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Camden County, NJ, which contains Collingswood, rather than for Collingswood alone.

No residential units were authorized over the past twelve months, against a nonzero total the year before. The change in permitting is published for Camden County, NJ, which contains Collingswood, rather than for Collingswood alone.

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At a glance

Population
14,205
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$90,184
Top 24% nationally
Density
7,762/sq mi
1.8 sq mi of land
Median age
39.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
New Jersey
Nearest major airport
PHL
9 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$380,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Camden County, NJ, which contains Collingswood, is 5.1% — higher than in all but 22% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Camden County, NJ, which contains Collingswood, grew 2.1% over the past year, to 264,443 employed residents.

54% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 91% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsCamden County, NJ’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$71,93549th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftCamden County, NJ’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$75,83757th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$7,5342024 ACS 5-Year$90,184Top 24%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,9732024 ACS 5-Year$57,608Top 11%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year9.8%Top 46%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.5 min2024 ACS 5-Year29.1 minBottom 38%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year53.9%Top 9%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year54.0%8th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentCamden County, NJ’s figureJuly 2026264,443Top 28%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Camden County, NJ’s figureJuly 2026+1.9%Top 21%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Camden County, NJ’s figureJuly 2026+2.1%Top 7%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceCamden County, NJ’s figureJuly 2026278,64572nd percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year85.7%Top 22%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wagePhiladelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$71,730Top 41%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wagePhiladelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$54,310Top 41%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year11.0%99th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Camden County, NJ’s figureJuly 2026−1.4%Top 3%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateCamden County, NJ’s figureJuly 20265.1%Bottom 22%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year22.6%89th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202490k74k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $90,184 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

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Camden County, NJ, which contains this city.

37% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 49% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Camden County, NJ, which contains Collingswood, rather than for Collingswood alone.

There are 11.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Camden County, NJ, which contains Collingswood, rather than for Collingswood alone.

Public schools
—
Students per teacher
11.9
Math proficiency
37.1%
Bottom 33% in New Jersey
Reading proficiency
48.7%
Bottom 24% in New Jersey

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Camden County, NJ: too few schools in Collingswood reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against New Jersey’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 102.4, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Camden, NJ Metropolitan Division is up 63% over five years, and up 4.7% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $9,485 a year in real estate taxes, about 2.49% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,050, some 38% above the $1,488 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,050 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $82,000 a year, about 91% of the median household income here of $90,184.

The typical renter household here spends 31% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,488 a month.

A median home at $380,400 costs 2.8 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $137,420, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

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.

Published for the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
30.9%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,050
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,488
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$380,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Collingswood’s median household income of $90,184, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area’s figure2023102.4Top 49%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Camden, NJ Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+4.7%75th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Camden, NJ Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+63.3%97th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Camden, NJ Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+109.5%75th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year2.8Bottom 41%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year57.0%16th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3152024 ACS 5-Year6,90191st percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,720Bottom 32%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,460Bottom 36%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,050Bottom 31%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1232024 ACS 5-Year$1,488Bottom 20%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,6672024 ACS 5-Year$380,40081st percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$3582024 ACS 5-Year$9,48599th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$12,2642024 ACS 5-Year$137,420Top 9%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.16%2024 ACS 5-Year2.49%98th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year30.9%Bottom 37%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±712024 ACS 5-Year6986th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year1.0%62nd percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year4.6%36th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1702024 ACS 5-Year38487th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

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The most recent move in permitting was downward, in a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 1% since 2020, reaching 14,344 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before: 0 units authorized in 2025, against a nonzero total the year before.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 14,344 residents in 2024, up 0.5% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

Federal tax returns show that people moving in from elsewhere in the US and people moving out roughly balanced across Camden County, which contains Collingswood, in the most recent year. Households that moved in reported an average income of $71,935, below the $75,837 of households that moved out.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
−27%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
38.1%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202414k14k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 3 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
−0.1%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
49%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$71,935
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$75,837
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Philadelphia County, PA 3,502 people · 17% of arrivals
  2. Burlington County, NJ 3,477 people · 17% of arrivals
  3. Gloucester County, NJ 3,029 people · 15% of arrivals
  4. Atlantic County, NJ 779 people · 3.8% of arrivals
  5. Middlesex County, NJ 463 people · 2.2% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Gloucester County, NJ 4,330 people · 21% of departures
  2. Burlington County, NJ 3,721 people · 18% of departures
  3. Philadelphia County, PA 1,655 people · 7.9% of departures
  4. Atlantic County, NJ 820 people · 3.9% of departures
  5. Cumberland County, NJ 391 people · 1.9% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Camden County, NJ. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

2020202120222023202420251.00.0
Annual totals from 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, 8.7 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year652024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals44.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals23.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year42024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year442024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals45°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. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

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Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and heat wave, with inland flooding alone responsible for 62% of it. Inland flooding and heat wave are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 72% of measured US cities.

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, avalanche, tsunami, volcanic activity.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

Violent crime
174
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
2,574
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Collingswood's police department reported 174 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 2,574.

Camden County records 2.7 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 3.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 27.7 per 100,000 residents in Camden County.

Homicide
2.7
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
3.4
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
27.7
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
6.3
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Collingswood’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Collingswood (Camden County) rather than Collingswood itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Philadelphia Intl at 9 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±0.5%2024 ACS 5-Year91.1%Top 44%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle9 miTop 23%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle7Top 13%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year7.8%Bottom 48%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL9 mi12,000 ft
Atlantic City IntlACY41 mi10,001 ft
Dover AFBDOV58 mi9,602 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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Other cities in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia County1,579,70660Philadelphia vs Collingswood
WilmingtonNew Castle County71,72753Wilmington vs Collingswood
CamdenCamden County71,49651Camden vs Collingswood
LevittownBucks County50,92668
SicklervilleCamden County44,99862
NorristownMontgomery County35,89362
ChesterDelaware County33,61953
Drexel HillDelaware County30,45169
NewarkNew Castle County30,33047
King of PrussiaMontgomery County25,85779
MiddletownNew Castle County24,66164
GlassboroGloucester County23,71770

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.