Census-designated place · Gloucester County, New Jersey

Williamstown, New Jersey

Williamstown is a census-designated place in Gloucester County, New Jersey, part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area. It has 14,705 residents. Williamstown, New Jersey has a quality-of-life score of 64 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,659 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New Jersey it ranks #423 of 552 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health care shortage (low), primary care shortage (low) and depression (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), average commute time (high) and preventable hospital stays (high).

64High

Quality-of-life score: #5,659 of 15,651 cities and towns
New Jersey: #423 of 552 in NJ
Population: 14,705 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 1,981.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 3481380

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.

Safety71#4,566/15,637
Economy60#6,196/15,631
Housing23#11,596/14,977
Health70#4,642/15,609
Healthcare50#7,751/15,650
Environment71#4,505/15,453
Education77#3,526/15,649
Infrastructure59#6,495/15,650
Community64#5,691/15,651
Leisure & amenities28#11,282/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Williamstown, New Jersey ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Gloucester 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 care shortage · low0.0
91/100New Jersey 1.2United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationGloucester County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100New Jersey 1.0United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationGloucester County value
Depression · low19.6%
87/100New Jersey 15.6%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Child poverty rate · low5.5%
87/100New Jersey 11.8%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100New Jersey 1United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGloucester County value
Distance to an airport · low11 mi
85/100New Jersey 21 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauGloucester County value

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high2.58%
1/100New Jersey 1.88%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Average commute time · high31.9 min
8/100New Jersey 30.5 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Preventable hospital stays · high3,953 /100k
10/100New Jersey 3,143 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGloucester County value
Restaurants and bars · low5.6 /10k
15/100New Jersey 8.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsGloucester County value
Social associations · low7.1 /10k
23/100New Jersey 8.1 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGloucester County value
Rent as share of income · high29.1%
24/100New Jersey 30.9%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
62.2% (2015-2019) → 46.8% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
34.5% (2015-2019) → 29.1% (2020-2024)
−5.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.5× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+26%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateWorsening
3.2% (2015-2019) → 8.3% (2020-2024)
+5.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Public transit commutersWorsening
6.2% (2015-2019) → 1.6% (2020-2024)
−4.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B08301US 5.0% → 3.2%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
25.3% (2015-2019) → 29.6% (2020-2024)
+4.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Williamstown, New Jersey improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 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.

Improved1

Property tax−0.7 points3.29% → 2.58%

Declined2

Poverty+5.1 points3.2% → 8.3%
Inequality+0.0510.365 → 0.417

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Williamstown, New Jersey between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	34.1 min2015-2019	31.9 min2020-2024	−2.2 min	Within the margin of error	73%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.3%2015-2019	29.6%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Broadband subscriptions	87.1%2015-2019	90.5%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Effective property tax rate	3.29%2015-2019	2.58%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Improved	97%
High school diploma or higher	94.5%2015-2019	95.2%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	43%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	39%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3652015-2019	0.4172020-2024	+0.051	Declined	16%
Median household income	$83,2322015-2019	$89,4142020-2024	+7.4%	Within the margin of error	14%
Poverty rate	3.2%2015-2019	8.3%2020-2024	+5.1 points	Declined	12%
Rent as share of income	34.5%2015-2019	29.1%2020-2024	−5.4 points	Within the margin of error	84%
Rent-burdened households	62.2%2015-2019	46.8%2020-2024	−15 points	Within the margin of error	90%
Unemployment rate	3.9%2015-2019	5.6%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.9%2015-2019	6.6%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	50%

“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 Williamstown, New Jersey five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Williamstown, 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, Williamstown, New Jersey itself moved +0.7 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

14,705 residents (±1,106)

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

5,775 households (±495)

Williamstown, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under $25k14%†790
$25k–50k14%†793
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

5,775 households (±495)

Williamstown, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Own82%4,717
Rent18%1,058

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

7,703 workers (±809)

Williamstown, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Drive alone74%5,701
Carpool9.2%†706
Public transit1.6%†124

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 Gloucester County, the county holding most of Williamstown's residents.

Gloucester County has 6,298 employer establishments, 204 for every 10,000 residents (0.82× the US rate of 248; 0.81× New Jersey's), with 107,864 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,514. The Census Bureau also counts 21,145 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,298; 21,145 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 204; US 248 · New Jersey 253
Paid employees: 107,864
Average annual pay: $54,514; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	578	18.7	0.90×About typical	6,164	$70,091	1,015
Restaurants and other eating places	504	16.3	0.89×About typical	9,523	$21,877	74
Specialty trade contractors	475	15.4	0.99×About typical	5,688	$80,270	1,124
Services to buildings and dwellings	255	8.3	1.23×About typical	2,165	$46,662	714
Personal care services	251	8.1	1.70×More than typical	1,656	$25,278	539
Limited-service restaurants	249	8.1	1.01×About typical	4,239	$19,181	37
Building equipment contractors	212	6.9	1.14×About typical	2,275	$79,286	228
Construction of buildings	195	6.3	0.84×About typical	1,414	$80,984	469
Offices of physicians	186	6	0.93×About typical	2,086	$96,257	165
Full-service restaurants	179	5.8	0.76×Fewer than typical	4,458	$25,248	19
Lessors of real estate	169	5.5	0.44×Fewer than typical	459	$48,702	2,569
Offices of other health practitioners	161	5.2	0.86×About typical	1,018	$44,283	549

Rank places for an industry Open Gloucester County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 308,693 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 $4,163 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Williamstown, New Jersey: $0.28 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $4,163; −99% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.28; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; 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

Department of Veterans Affairs$4,163100%

Top recipients

HESTON GROUP LLC$4,163100%

Spending by fiscal year

41KFY2017
30KFY2018
20.9KFY2019
23.9KFY2020
-1KFY2021
24.7KFY2022
100.9KFY2023
408.5KFY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing · 3331$4,163100%

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 Williamstown, New Jersey, so they do not add up across cities.

Williamstown, New Jersey's figures are part of those of Gloucester County, NJ ($28.3M 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: Williamstown is mostly in Gloucester County.

See federal money in Gloucester 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.

Williamstown, 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.

Gloucester 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 Gloucester 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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