Cookstown vs Jobstown

A side-by-side comparison of Cookstown and Jobstown: population, income, housing, and more.

Cookstown and Jobstown are places in New Jersey. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Cookstown has the higher population (521 vs 258 in Jobstown). Cookstown has the higher median household income ($110,938 vs $81,000 in Jobstown). Jobstown has the higher median home value ($483,300 vs $369,600 in Cookstown).

Population, income & housing

	Cookstown	Jobstown
Population	521	258
Median age	41.4 yrs	55.6 yrs
Median household income	$110,938	$81,000
Median home value	$369,600	$483,300
Housing units	217	125
Homeownership rate	96.3%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	37.9%	16.4%
Unemployment rate	4.6%	19.9%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Cookstown	Jobstown
Population	1,040 → 521 (-49.9%)	418 → 258 (-38.3%)
Median household income	$105,313 → $110,938 (+5.3%)	$82,361 → $81,000 (-1.7%)
Median home value	$238,700 → $369,600 (+54.8%)	$425,000 → $483,300 (+13.7%)

Cookstown

Population

1,040521

Median household income

$105,313$110,938

Median home value

$238,700$369,600

Jobstown

Population

418258

Median household income

$82,361$81,000

Median home value

$425,000$483,300

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Cookstown	Jobstown
Under 5	9.8%	2.3%
5 to 17	11.5%	10.1%
18 to 24	6.7%	5.0%
25 to 34	14.0%	12.4%
35 to 44	17.5%	7.0%
45 to 54	8.6%	10.5%
55 to 64	16.7%	29.1%
65 to 74	8.6%	15.1%
75 and over	6.5%	8.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Cookstown	Jobstown
White (non-Hispanic)	75.2%	82.6%
Black or African American	4.4%	13.2%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.8%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.1%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	16.5%	4.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Cookstown	Jobstown
No high school diploma	7.2%	11.3%
High school graduate	30.4%	44.1%
Some college or associate's	24.5%	28.2%
Bachelor's degree	24.8%	13.6%
Graduate or professional degree	13.1%	2.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Cookstown	Jobstown
Drove alone	88.2%	78.0%
Carpooled	2.0%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	1.6%	0.0%
Bicycle	2.7%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.1%	22.0%
Other means	0.4%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Cookstown	Jobstown
1-unit, detached	100.0%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Cookstown	Jobstown
Poverty rate	4.7%	9.3%
Average household size	2.40	2.30
Mean commute (minutes)	30	43
Median year structure built	1986	1985