Census-designated place · Camden County, New Jersey

Echelon, New Jersey

Echelon is a census-designated place in Camden County, New Jersey, part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area. It has 13,284 residents. Echelon, New Jersey has a quality-of-life score of 68 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,053 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New Jersey it ranks #393 of 552 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an Amtrak station (low), child poverty rate (low) and suicide rate (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), preventable hospital stays (high) and property crime rate (high).

68High

Quality-of-life score: #5,053 of 15,651 cities and towns
New Jersey: #393 of 552 in NJ
Population: 13,284 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 4,750.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 3419900

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety45#8,620/15,637
Economy62#5,891/15,631
Housing11#13,339/14,977
Health76#3,796/15,609
Healthcare85#2,309/15,650
Environment42#8,947/15,453
Education72#4,321/15,649
Infrastructure83#2,697/15,650
Community68#5,074/15,651
Leisure & amenities57#6,747/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Echelon, New Jersey ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Camden 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

Distance to an Amtrak station · low3 mi
99/100New Jersey 11 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCamden County value
Child poverty rate · low1.9%
97/100New Jersey 11.8%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Suicide rate · low6.3 /100k
96/100New Jersey 8.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCamden County value
Depression · low16.6%
96/100New Jersey 15.6%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Firearm deaths · low3.4 /100k
94/100New Jersey 4.0 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCamden County value
Adult obesity · low24.8%
94/100New Jersey 29.7%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high2.44%
2/100New Jersey 1.88%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Preventable hospital stays · high4,474 /100k
4/100New Jersey 3,143 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCamden County value
Property crime rate · high2,497 /100k
5/100New Jersey 1,250 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureCamden County value
Average commute time · high29.1 min
12/100New Jersey 30.5 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Drug overdose deaths · high27.7 /100k
12/100New Jersey 15.8 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCamden County value
Child care cost burden · high38.0%
13/100New Jersey 34.2%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCamden County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
11,957 (2015-2019) → 13,284 (2020-2024)
+11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
37.8% (2015-2019) → 54.2% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
46.5% (2015-2019) → 53.6% (2020-2024)
+7.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Public transit commutersWorsening
11.2% (2015-2019) → 4.3% (2020-2024)
−6.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B08301US 5.0% → 3.2%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
87.6% (2015-2019) → 94.4% (2020-2024)
+6.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.0× (2015-2019) → 4.0× (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Echelon, New Jersey improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 4. 8 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.

Improved2

Uninsured−4.8 points9.2% → 4.4%
Broadband+6.8 points87.6% → 94.4%

Declined4

Rent burden+16 points37.8% → 54.2%
Rent / income+6 points25.6% → 31.6%
Price / income+0.9×3.0× → 4.0×
Transit use−6.9 points11.2% → 4.3%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Echelon, New Jersey between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	32.6 min2015-2019	29.1 min2020-2024	−3.5 min	Within the margin of error	82%
Bachelor's degree or higher	46.5%2015-2019	53.6%2020-2024	+7.1 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Broadband subscriptions	87.6%2015-2019	94.4%2020-2024	+6.8 points	Improved	43%
Effective property tax rate	3.11%2015-2019	2.44%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	96%
High school diploma or higher	90.8%2015-2019	96.1%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	25%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4462015-2019	0.4402020-2024	−0.006	Within the margin of error	56%
Median household income	$73,6712015-2019	$82,9322020-2024	+13%	Within the margin of error	20%
Poverty rate	12.2%2015-2019	10.6%2020-2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Public transit commuters	11.2%2015-2019	4.3%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Declined	4%
Rent as share of income	25.6%2015-2019	31.6%2020-2024	+6 points	Declined	18%
Rent-burdened households	37.8%2015-2019	54.2%2020-2024	+16 points	Declined	13%
Unemployment rate	5.7%2015-2019	3.9%2020-2024	−1.8 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.2%2015-2019	4.4%2020-2024	−4.8 points	Improved	86%

“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 Echelon, New Jersey five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Echelon, 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, Echelon, New Jersey itself moved −5.7 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

13,284 residents (±1,108)

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

6,219 households (±383)

Echelon, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under $25k20%1,234
$25k–50k11%†683
$50k–75k17%†1,037

Homes

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

Owners and renters

6,219 households (±383)

Echelon, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Own37%2,286
Rent63%3,933

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

6,954 workers (±541)

Echelon, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Drive alone66%4,573
Carpool4.8%†334
Public transit4.3%†300

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 Camden County, the county holding most of Echelon's residents.

Camden County has 11,541 employer establishments, 218 for every 10,000 residents (0.88× the US rate of 248; 0.86× New Jersey's), with 190,853 paid employees at an average annual pay of $61,930. The Census Bureau also counts 41,655 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 11,541; 41,655 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 218; US 248 · New Jersey 253
Paid employees: 190,853
Average annual pay: $61,930; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	1,235	23.3	1.12×About typical	17,618	$67,714	2,232
Restaurants and other eating places	885	16.7	0.91×About typical	13,882	$24,204	281
Specialty trade contractors	644	12.2	0.78×Fewer than typical	7,295	$77,119	1,830
Limited-service restaurants	422	8	0.99×About typical	5,883	$21,638	149
Offices of physicians	388	7.3	1.13×About typical	5,865	$91,293	433
Legal services	377	7.1	1.32×More than typical	2,704	$105,121	518
Personal care services	359	6.8	1.42×More than typical	2,059	$24,483	1,376
Lessors of real estate	357	6.7	0.55×Fewer than typical	1,889	$68,936	4,645
Services to buildings and dwellings	345	6.5	0.97×About typical	2,907	$39,840	1,671
Full-service restaurants	334	6.3	0.82×About typical	6,417	$27,614	91
Construction of buildings	333	6.3	0.83×About typical	1,557	$75,353	947
Offices of other health practitioners	319	6	0.99×About typical	3,444	$57,525	1,058

Rank places for an industry Open Camden County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 529,977 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 $2.6M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Echelon, New Jersey: $199 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2.6M; −33% vs FY2025
Per resident: $199; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.5%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.1%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$2.6M99%
Department of the Navy$34.5K1.3%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$4,0710.2%

Top recipients

AMERICAN WATER OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, LLC$2.5M96%
VALIPHARM INC$68.4K2.6%
ZIKR LLC$34.5K1.3%
HALE TRAILER BRAKE & WHEEL INC$4,0710.2%
6605 E STATE LLC$2710.0%

Spending by fiscal year

1.5MFY2017
2MFY2018
2.5MFY2019
2.9MFY2020
1.6MFY2021
2.1MFY2022
3.4MFY2023
2.3M

Top industries (NAICS)

Water, sewage and other systems · 2213$2.5M96%
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing · 3341$34.5K1.3%
Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing · 3333$28.5K1.1%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$15.1K0.6%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$11.5K0.4%
Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353$11K

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Echelon, New Jersey, so they do not add up across cities.

Echelon, New Jersey's figures are part of those of Camden County, NJ ($395.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.7% of that total.

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

See federal money in Camden 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.

Echelon, New Jersey is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Donald NorcrossD-NJ-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 14.1%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

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

Camden County68100% 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 Camden 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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