08096 — Woodbury, New Jersey

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 08096. Its median home value runs 21% above Woodbury as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

64out of 100
Area Score
Top 29% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 15 sources
OpportunityTop 25% of 3,116 ZIP areas measured67
Schools1,726th of 3,047 ZIP areas measured45
Growth2,903rd of 3,124 ZIP areas measured22
Housing affordabilityTop 49% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured68
ClimateTop 48% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured71
Physical resilienceTop 12% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured87
AccessTop 4% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured100
Economic stabilityTop 28% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured67
The quick read

08096 ranks in the top 25% of ZIP areas measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.6% and median household income of $89,013. The unemployment rate is published for Woodbury, NJ, which contains 08096, rather than for 08096 alone.

In the public schools here, 34% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 11.8 students for every teacher.

No residential units were authorized over the past twelve months, against a nonzero total the year before. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Woodbury, NJ, which contains 08096, rather than for 08096 alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
35,336
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$89,013
Top 27% nationally
Density
2,544/sq mi
13.9 sq mi of land
Median age
41.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Woodbury
New Jersey
Nearest major airport
PHL
7 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$269,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Woodbury, NJ, which contains 08096, is 4.6% — higher than in all but 41% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Woodbury, NJ, which contains 08096, grew 2.1% over the past year, to 160,525 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsGloucester County, NJ’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$69,50953rd percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftGloucester County, NJ’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$70,94955th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$4,4262024 ACS 5-Year$89,013Top 27%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,2742024 ACS 5-Year$45,957Top 26%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year8.1%Top 38%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.1 min2024 ACS 5-Year27.5 minTop 49%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year30.6%Top 33%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year76.1%50th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentWoodbury, NJ’s figureJuly 2026160,525Top 23%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Woodbury, NJ’s figureJuly 2026+2.0%Top 22%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Woodbury, NJ’s figureJuly 2026+2.1%Top 8%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceWoodbury, NJ’s figureJuly 2026168,20477th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year84.8%Top 21%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wagePhiladelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$71,730Top 29%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wagePhiladelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$54,310Top 29%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year1.9%86th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Woodbury, NJ’s figureJuly 2026−1.3%Top 5%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateWoodbury, NJ’s figureJuly 20264.6%Bottom 41%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year11.7%60th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202491k82k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $89,013 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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Woodbury, NJ, the city containing this ZIP code.

34% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 43% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.8 students for every full-time teacher across 11 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
33.8%
Bottom 34% in New Jersey
Reading proficiency
42.5%
Bottom 32% in New Jersey
All 11 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Deptford Township High SchoolDeptford Township Public School District1,09813.135%46%
Gateway Regional High SchoolGateway Regional High School District86210.427%46%
Woodbury Jr-Sr High SchoolWoodbury City Public School District81811.716%35%
Green-Fields Elementary SchoolWest Deptford Township School District47912.961%51%
Oakview Elementary SchoolWest Deptford Township School District47514.4——
West End Memorial Elementary SchoolWoodbury City Public School District46911.737%32%
Lake Tract Elementary SchoolDeptford Township Public School District40912.043%48%
Good Intent Elementary SchoolDeptford Township Public School District32711.342%46%
Evergreen Avenue Elementary SchoolWoodbury City Public School District31011.127%32%
Central Early Childhood CenterDeptford Township Public School District3109.4——
Walnut Street SchoolWoodbury City Public School District11210.235%45%

46.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

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 $6,952 a year in real estate taxes, about 2.58% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,930, some 29% above the $1,492 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,930 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $77,200 a year, about 87% of the median household income here of $89,013.

The typical renter household here spends 32% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,492 a month.

A median home at $269,000 costs 2.4 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $111,321, 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
32.2%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.4×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,930
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,492
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$269,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 08096’s median household income of $89,013, 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 figure2023102.4Bottom 39%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Camden, NJ Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+4.7%76th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Camden, NJ Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+63.3%97th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Camden, NJ Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+109.5%72nd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.22024 ACS 5-Year2.4Top 38%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year73.6%37th percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5562024 ACS 5-Year14,77791st percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,620Bottom 29%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,310Bottom 35%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,930Bottom 28%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$972024 ACS 5-Year$1,492Bottom 22%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,2432024 ACS 5-Year$269,00062nd percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1702024 ACS 5-Year$6,95295th percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$10,1102024 ACS 5-Year$111,321Top 21%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.12%2024 ACS 5-Year2.58%99th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year32.2%Bottom 29%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±302024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year5.7%42nd percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2582024 ACS 5-Year84885th percentileof 33,7722024 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

22/ 100
Ranks 2,903 of 3,124 published ZIP profiles

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.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Woodbury, NJ, which contains 08096, rather than for 08096 alone.

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
39.8%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.6%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
36%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$69,509
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$70,949
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Camden County, NJ 4,330 people · 34% of arrivals
  2. Philadelphia County, PA 1,388 people · 11% of arrivals
  3. Burlington County, NJ 910 people · 7.1% of arrivals
  4. Cumberland County, NJ 597 people · 4.7% of arrivals
  5. Atlantic County, NJ 497 people · 3.9% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Camden County, NJ 3,029 people · 27% of departures
  2. Salem County, NJ 738 people · 6.5% of departures
  3. Philadelphia County, PA 670 people · 5.9% of departures
  4. Burlington County, NJ 661 people · 5.8% of departures
  5. Cumberland County, NJ 640 people · 5.6% 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 Gloucester County, NJ. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Woodbury, NJ, the city containing this ZIP code.

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.

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, 6.0 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year642024 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 year82024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year412024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals45°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. 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

87 / 100
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 52% 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 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

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, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche.

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 offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Homicide
2.2
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
6.8
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
18.5
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
11.0
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.

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 08096 (Gloucester County) rather than 08096 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read 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.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Woodbury carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
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 7 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year91.2%Top 41%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle7 miTop 13%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle7Top 11%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year6.2%Top 40%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL7 mi12,000 ft
Atlantic City IntlACY39 mi10,001 ft
Dover AFBDOV52 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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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
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.

08096 vs Woodbury

How this ZIP area compares with Woodbury as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

08096
Woodbury
Median household income: 08096 is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$89,013
vs
$77,028
Per capita income: 08096 is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$45,957
vs
$39,206
Population density
2,544/sq mi
vs
4,971/sq mi
Median home value
$269,000
vs
$222,700
Median gross rent: Woodbury is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$1,492
vs
$990
Homeownership rate
73.6%
vs
65.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 08096 is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
30.6%
vs
28.1%
Poverty rate: 08096 is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
8.1%
vs
13.5%
Median age
41.7
vs
39.8

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.