Census-designated place · Burlington County, New Jersey

Browns Mills, New Jersey

Browns Mills is a census-designated place in Burlington County, New Jersey, part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area. It has 9,672 residents. Browns Mills, New Jersey has a quality-of-life score of 47 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,325 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New Jersey it ranks #498 of 552 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), food environment index (high) and mental health care shortage (low). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), preventable hospital stays (high) and unemployment rate (high).

47Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,325 of 15,651 cities and towns
New Jersey: #498 of 552 in NJ
Population: 9,672 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 1,800.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 3408455

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety76#3,814/15,637
Economy46#8,493/15,631
Housing23#11,493/14,977
Health62#5,985/15,609
Healthcare79#3,272/15,650
Environment23#11,918/15,453
Education50#7,831/15,649
Infrastructure10#14,074/15,650
Community72#4,387/15,651
Leisure & amenities42#9,067/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Browns Mills, New Jersey ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Burlington County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Mental health providers · high1,200 /100k
100/100New Jersey 329 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBurlington County value
Food environment index · high9.2
92/100New Jersey 9.3United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBurlington County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100New Jersey 1.2United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBurlington County value
Firearm deaths · low4.3 /100k
91/100New Jersey 4.0 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBurlington County value
Depression · low18.5%
91/100New Jersey 15.6%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100New Jersey 1.0United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBurlington County value

Weaknesses

Average commute time · high31.8 min
7/100New Jersey 30.5 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Preventable hospital stays · high3,820 /100k
12/100New Jersey 3,143 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBurlington County value
Unemployment rate · high8.5%
14/100New Jersey 5.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Physical inactivity · high31.0%
18/100New Jersey 23.8%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Rent as share of income · high32.7%
21/100New Jersey 30.9%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Restaurants and bars · low6.2 /10k
21/100New Jersey 8.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBurlington County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
10,998 (2015-2019) → 9,672 (2020-2024)
−12%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
13.1% (2015-2019) → 18.8% (2020-2024)
+5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
48.5% (2015-2019) → 54.1% (2020-2024)
+5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
92.9% (2015-2019) → 87.6% (2020-2024)
−5.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.5× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Median household incomeImproving
$63,833 (2015-2019) → $75,867 (2020-2024)
+19%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Browns Mills, New Jersey improved on 3 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Property tax−0.6 points2.10% → 1.46%
Bachelor's++5.7 points13.1% → 18.8%
Household income+19%$63,833 → $75,867

Declined1

Price / income+0.6×2.5× → 3.1×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Browns Mills, New Jersey between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	30.5 min2015-2019	31.8 min2020-2024	+1.3 min	Within the margin of error	34%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.1%2015-2019	18.8%2020-2024	+5.7 points	Improved	73%
Broadband subscriptions	87.6%2015-2019	88.7%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Child poverty rate	12.6%2015-2019	12.8%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Effective property tax rate	2.10%2015-2019	1.46%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Improved	95%
High school diploma or higher	92.9%2015-2019	87.6%2020-2024	−5.3 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.6×	Declined	43%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4102015-2019	0.4292020-2024	+0.019	Within the margin of error	34%
Median household income	$63,8332015-2019	$75,8672020-2024	+19%	Improved	31%
Poverty rate	10.6%2015-2019	11.5%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Rent as share of income	29.5%2015-2019	32.7%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Within the margin of error	31%
Rent-burdened households	48.5%2015-2019	54.1%2020-2024	+5.6 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Unemployment rate	10.6%2015-2019	8.5%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.0%2015-2019	6.4%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	42%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Browns Mills, New Jersey five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Browns Mills, New Jersey in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Browns Mills, New Jersey itself moved −10.7 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

9,672 residents (±651)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

3,565 households (±266)

Browns Mills, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under $25k17%602
$25k–50k16%567
$50k–75k17%592

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

3,565 households (±266)

Browns Mills, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Own79%2,808
Rent21%757

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

4,320 workers (±401)

Browns Mills, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Drive alone75%3,221
Carpool15%637
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Burlington County, the county holding most of Browns Mills's residents.

Burlington County has 10,703 employer establishments, 227 for every 10,000 residents (0.91× the US rate of 248; 0.89× New Jersey's), with 199,706 paid employees at an average annual pay of $64,106. The Census Bureau also counts 37,263 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 10,703; 37,263 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 227; US 248 · New Jersey 253
Paid employees: 199,706
Average annual pay: $64,106; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Burlington County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	975	20.6	0.99×About typical	13,784	$77,475	1,827
Restaurants and other eating places	747	15.8	0.86×About typical	12,336	$23,256	173
Specialty trade contractors	631	13.4	0.86×About typical	5,332	$84,784	2,067
Lessors of real estate	365	7.7	0.63×Fewer than typical	1,742	$70,235	4,537
Services to buildings and dwellings	359	7.6	1.13×About typical	2,742	$47,581	1,400
Limited-service restaurants	352	7.5	0.93×About typical	5,274	$20,048	80
Construction of buildings	332	7	0.93×About typical	1,612	$72,350	850
Personal care services	321	6.8	1.42×More than typical	2,206	$25,492	852
Offices of other health practitioners	303	6.4	1.06×About typical	1,626	$50,542	863
Computer systems design and related services	301	6.4	1.47×More than typical	4,202	$115,134	492
Offices of physicians	284	6	0.93×About typical	4,737	$100,660	392
Full-service restaurants	282	6	0.78×Fewer than typical	5,915	$26,832	62

Rank places for an industry Open Burlington County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 472,273 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $12.3K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Browns Mills, New Jersey: $1.27 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $12.3K; −36% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1.27; US $1,995
Sole-source: 22%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$7,00457%
Department of the Army$5,32143%

Top recipients

TITAN FIRE PROTECTION, LLC$7,00457%
GOLDEN YEARS PAY SOLUTIONS LLC$5,32143%

Spending by fiscal year

4.8KFY2017
3.9KFY2019
10KFY2020
39.3KFY2021
1.7KFY2022
0FY2024
19.3KFY2025
12.3KFY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Building equipment contractors · 2382$7,00457%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$5,32143%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Browns Mills, New Jersey, so they do not add up across cities.

Browns Mills, New Jersey's figures are part of those of Burlington County, NJ ($2.9B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Browns Mills is mostly in Burlington County.

See federal money in Burlington County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Browns Mills, New Jersey is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Burlington County84100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD73

Other cities and towns in Burlington County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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