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ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
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ZIP Codes With the Lowest Average Income in New Jersey

What this measures. Total adjusted gross income divided by tax returns filed, lowest first. ZIP codes with fewer than 200 returns are excluded: the IRS suppresses small cells and the remainder swing too wildly to rank. Source: IRS Statistics of Income, ZIP code data, data release 2026-10-12.

# ZIP City County Average AGI per return
1 08104 Camden Camden $30,435
2 07505 Paterson Passaic $31,708
3 08105 Camden Camden $32,293
4 07501 Paterson Passaic $32,480
5 07524 Paterson Passaic $33,018
6 07522 Paterson Passaic $33,125
7 08608 Trenton Mercer $33,593
8 07513 Paterson Passaic $34,744
9 08611 Trenton Mercer $34,767
10 08102 Camden Camden $35,036
11 08609 Trenton Mercer $35,282
12 08103 Camden Camden $35,443
13 07108 Newark Essex $36,116
14 07107 Newark Essex $36,687
15 08232 Pleasantville Atlantic $37,089
16 07206 Elizabethport Union $37,785
17 07114 Newark Essex $37,885
18 07514 Paterson Passaic $37,977
19 07503 Paterson Passaic $38,329
20 08401 Atlantic City Atlantic $38,722
21 07103 Newark Essex $40,428
22 07201 Elizabeth Union $40,904
23 07504 Paterson Passaic $41,329
24 07112 Newark Essex $41,800
25 08629 Trenton Mercer $41,979
26 07111 Irvington Essex $42,585
27 07104 Newark Essex $42,628
28 07106 Newark Essex $43,385
29 07105 Newark Essex $43,409
30 08861 Perth Amboy Middlesex $43,700
31 07502 Paterson Passaic $43,934
32 07202 Elizabeth Union $44,544
33 07050 Orange Essex $45,286
34 07018 East Orange Essex $46,312
35 08110 Pennsauken Camden $46,650
36 07017 East Orange Essex $47,208
37 08832 Keasbey Middlesex $47,229
38 08901 New Brunswick Middlesex $47,273
39 07055 Passaic Passaic $48,238
40 07022 Fairview Bergen $48,495
41 07087 Union City Hudson $49,569
42 08066 Paulsboro Gloucester $49,898
43 08618 Trenton Mercer $50,430
44 07011 Clifton Passaic $51,866
45 08324 Heislerville Cumberland $52,314
46 08360 Vineland Cumberland $52,424
47 08349 Port Norris Cumberland $52,571
48 08242 Rio Grande Cape May $52,767
49 07060 Plainfield Union $52,769
50 08069 Penns Grove Salem $52,809

Showing the top 50 of 543 ZIP codes in New Jersey that have this figure and meet the threshold above. 08104 ranks 1st at $30,435, against $52,809 in 50th place.

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zipcodes.pro. “ZIP Codes With the Lowest Average Income in New Jersey.” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/rankings/nj/lowest-average-income

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