Woodbury, New Jersey

Area Profile

10,042 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Woodbury, in Gloucester County.

67out of 100
Area Score
Top 27% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 28% of 3,904 published cities67
Schools1734th of 2,668 published cities40
Growth2695th of 2,973 published cities22
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 published cities100
ClimateTop 46% of 4,223 published cities71
Physical resilienceTop 14% of 4,182 published cities87
AccessTop 8% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stability2749th of 4,226 published cities52
The quick read

Residential permitting has slowed: 0 units authorized over the past twelve months, 100% below the prior year.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 15% of median household income and the median home is 2.9 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Woodbury in the top 14% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
10,042
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$77,028
Top 37% nationally
Density
4,971/sq mi
2.0 sq mi of land
Median age
39.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Gloucester County
New Jersey
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Nearest major airport
PHL
5 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$222,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.3% is lower than 51% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 1.5% over the past year, to 160,644 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$8,591$77,028Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,496$39,206Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate13.2%Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.5 minTop 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher28.1%Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment160,644Top 32%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.5%Top 27%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.5%Top 8%June 2026
Labor force167,805Top 32%June 2026
Labor force participation65.7%Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,730Top 40%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,310Top 41%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 7%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.3%Bottom 49%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202477k64k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $77,028 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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Gloucester County, NJ, which contains this city.

12% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 38% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.8 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
11.8%
Bottom 23% in New Jersey
Reading proficiency
38.0%
Bottom 33% in New Jersey
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Deptford Township High SchoolDeptford Township Public School District1,09813.1
Gateway Regional High SchoolGateway Regional High School District86210.412%42%
Woodbury Jr-Sr High SchoolWoodbury City Public School District81811.78%47%
Green-Fields Elementary SchoolWest Deptford Township School District47912.927%40%
Oakview Elementary SchoolWest Deptford Township School District47514.4
West End Memorial Elementary SchoolWoodbury City Public School District46911.79%25%
Lake Tract Elementary SchoolDeptford Township Public School District40912.09%32%
Good Intent Elementary SchoolDeptford Township Public School District32711.313%44%
Evergreen Avenue Elementary SchoolWoodbury City Public School District31011.16%25%
Central Early Childhood CenterDeptford Township Public School District3109.4
Walnut Street SchoolWoodbury City Public School District11210.210%28%

46.3% 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 $990 takes 15% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.9 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
15.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$990
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$222,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.89Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate65.4%Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2784,718Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$139$990Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$12,761$222,700Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income15.4%Bottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate10.9%Top 47%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 →
Development Momentum
22/ 100
Ranks 2695 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

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 2% since 2020, reaching 10,138 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before.

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
−100%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202410k10k
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.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202120222023202420255.01.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was close to 2020 (0%).

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 41, in the Good band, and about 8 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, 4.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 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 10082024 calendar year
Median air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
8
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

87 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Winter weatherModerate
Strong windElevated
EarthquakeElevated
Coastal floodingElevated
HurricaneModerate
DroughtModerate
HailModerate

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

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.

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.

Gloucester County records 2.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 6.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 17.2 per 100,000 residents in Gloucester County.

Homicide
2.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
6.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
17.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.3
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 Gloucester 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 Woodbury rather than Woodbury 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 5 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL5 mi12,000 ft
Atlantic City IntlACY40 mi10,001 ft
Newark Liberty IntlEWR79 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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Other cities in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia County1,579,70661vs Woodbury
WilmingtonNew Castle County71,72754vs Woodbury
CamdenCamden County71,496vs Woodbury
LevittownBucks County50,926vs Woodbury
SicklervilleCamden County44,998vs Woodbury
NorristownMontgomery County35,89365vs Woodbury
ChesterDelaware County33,61955vs Woodbury
Drexel HillDelaware County30,451vs Woodbury
NewarkNew Castle County30,33048vs Woodbury
King of PrussiaMontgomery County25,857vs Woodbury
MiddletownNew Castle County24,66166vs Woodbury
GlassboroGloucester County23,71772vs Woodbury

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.

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)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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.

ZIP codes in Woodbury

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
0809635,336$89,01369