Census-designated place · Mercer County, New Jersey

Yardville, New Jersey

Yardville is a census-designated place in Mercer County, New Jersey, part of the Trenton-Princeton, NJ metro area. It has 6,301 residents. Yardville, New Jersey has a quality-of-life score of 62 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,914 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New Jersey it ranks #430 of 552 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an Amtrak station (low), access to exercise opportunities (high) and average weekly wage (high). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), average commute time (high) and unemployment rate (high).

62High

Quality-of-life score: #5,914 of 15,651 cities and towns
New Jersey: #430 of 552 in NJ
Population: 6,301 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 1,547.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 3483170

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.

Safety50#7,862/15,637
Economy60#6,328/15,631
Housing13#13,049/14,977
Health78#3,464/15,609
Healthcare88#1,855/15,650
Environment11#13,776/15,453
Education58#6,580/15,649
Infrastructure61#6,161/15,650
Community88#1,911/15,651
Leisure & amenities70#4,701/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Yardville, New Jersey ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Mercer 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 · low4 mi
99/100New Jersey 11 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMercer County value
Access to exercise opportunities · high99.4%
97/100New Jersey 95.9%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMercer County value
Average weekly wage · high$1,816
96/100New Jersey $1,659United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMercer County value
Suicide rate · low7.3 /100k
95/100New Jersey 8.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMercer County value
Distance to an emergency room · low2.9 mi
93/100New Jersey 3.9 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMercer County value
Adult obesity · low25.6%
92/100New Jersey 29.7%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high2.29%
3/100New Jersey 1.88%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Average commute time · high31.7 min
9/100New Jersey 30.5 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Unemployment rate · high10.0%
9/100New Jersey 5.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Drought exposure · high77%
15/100New Jersey 61%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAMercer County value
Drug overdose deaths · high24.1 /100k
19/100New Jersey 15.8 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMercer County value
Property crime rate · high1,710 /100k
21/100New Jersey 1,250 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMercer County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
6,801 (2015-2019) → 6,301 (2020-2024)
−7.4%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
36.9% (2015-2019) → 71.4% (2020-2024)
+34 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
4.3% (2015-2019) → 35.8% (2020-2024)
+31 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.1% (2015-2019) → 37.5% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.3× (2015-2019) → 3.5× (2020-2024)
+49%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateWorsening
4.5% (2015-2019) → 13.2% (2020-2024)
+8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Yardville, New Jersey improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined2

Poverty+8.7 points4.5% → 13.2%
Price / income+1.1×2.3× → 3.5×

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Yardville, New Jersey between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.9 min2015-2019	31.7 min2020-2024	+7.8 min	Within the margin of error	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	29.7%2015-2019	34.5%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Broadband subscriptions	92.6%2015-2019	92.5%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Effective property tax rate	2.69%2015-2019	2.29%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	85%
High school diploma or higher	93.9%2015-2019	93.4%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+1.1×	Declined	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3472015-2019	0.3752020-2024	+0.029	Within the margin of error	28%
Median household income	$107,2292015-2019	$103,2742020-2024	−3.7%	Within the margin of error	5%
Poverty rate	4.5%2015-2019	13.2%2020-2024	+8.7 points	Declined	5%
Rent-burdened households	36.9%2015-2019	71.4%2020-2024	+34 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	3.4%2015-2019	4.6%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	32%

“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 Yardville, New Jersey five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Yardville, 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, Yardville, New Jersey itself moved −22.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

6,301 residents (±612)

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

2,704 households (±357)

Yardville, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under $25k13%†341
$25k–50k9.7%†263
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,704 households (±357)

Yardville, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Own80%2,153
Rent20%551

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−8.1 points).

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,652 workers (±442)

Yardville, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Drive alone83%2,190
Carpool0.6%†16
Public transit0.8%†22

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 Trenton-Princeton, NJ

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 Mercer County, the county holding most of Yardville's residents.

Mercer County has 9,683 employer establishments, 247 for every 10,000 residents (1.00× the US rate of 248; 0.98× New Jersey's), with 208,192 paid employees at an average annual pay of $86,384. The Census Bureau also counts 35,660 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 9,683; 35,660 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 247; US 248 · New Jersey 253
Paid employees: 208,192
Average annual pay: $86,384; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	836	21.4	1.02×About typical	11,087	$67,986	1,473
Restaurants and other eating places	707	18.1	0.98×About typical	10,512	$24,976	248
Computer systems design and related services	453	11.6	2.67×More than typical	4,630	$120,746	633
Specialty trade contractors	395	10.1	0.65×Fewer than typical	3,072	$84,285	1,659
Services to buildings and dwellings	360	9.2	1.36×More than typical	2,696	$38,482	1,943
Management, scientific and technical consulting	335	8.6	1.28×More than typical	3,344	$108,148	1,883
Offices of physicians	313	8	1.24×About typical	3,284	$93,976	302
Lessors of real estate	312	8	0.65×Fewer than typical	2,124	$68,918	3,301
Full-service restaurants	301	7.7	1.00×About typical	5,297	$28,861	114
Construction of buildings	288	7.4	0.97×About typical	1,507	$93,035	1,067
Limited-service restaurants	284	7.3	0.90×About typical	3,853	$21,616	93
Personal care services	272	6.9	1.46×More than typical	1,555	$27,332	1,036

Rank places for an industry Open Mercer County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 391,369 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 $208.2K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Yardville, New Jersey: $33.04 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $208.2K; −36% vs FY2025
Per resident: $33.04; US $1,994
Sole-source: 7.4%; US 30%
Single offer: 3.5%; 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$98.2K47%
Environmental Protection Agency$78.8K38%
Department of the Army$12.9K6.2%
National Institute of Standards and Technology$11K5.3%
Department of the Navy$3,0821.5%
U.S. Agency for Global Media$3,0591.5%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1,2100.6%

Top recipients

SOVEREIGN CONSULTING INC$78.8K38%
AMERIPACK INC.$70.1K34%
BROOKS POWER SYSTEMS, LLC$23K11%
CUSTOM CALIBRATION SOLUTIONS LLC$12.9K6.2%
HARRISON HOSE AND TUBING INC.$11.3K5.4%

Spending by fiscal year

506.3KFY2017
276.2KFY2018
1.2MFY2019
394.4KFY2020
191.1KFY2021
491.4KFY2022
299KFY2023
200.1K

Top industries (NAICS)

Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$78.8K38%
Other general purpose machinery manufacturing · 3339$57.3K28%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$23K11%
Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance · 8112$12.9K6.2%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$12.2K5.9%
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329

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

Yardville, New Jersey's figures are part of those of Mercer County, NJ ($242.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Mercer 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.

Yardville, 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.

Mercer County73100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Trenton-Princeton, NJ77

Other cities and towns in Mercer 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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