Farmingdale vs Roosevelt

A side-by-side comparison of Farmingdale and Roosevelt: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Farmingdale has the higher population (1,399 vs 1,059 in Roosevelt). Roosevelt has the higher median household income ($112,614 vs $97,574 in Farmingdale). Farmingdale has the higher median home value ($401,000 vs $354,600 in Roosevelt).

Population, income & housing

	Farmingdale	Roosevelt
Population	1,399	1,059
Median age	36.5 yrs	38.8 yrs
Median household income	$97,574	$112,614
Median home value	$401,000	$354,600
Median gross rent	$1,548	—
Housing units	594	376
Homeownership rate	57.4%	82.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	37.4%	45.7%
Unemployment rate	13.1%	3.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Farmingdale	Roosevelt
Population	1,299 → 1,399 (+7.7%)	854 → 1,059 (+24.0%)
Median household income	$63,650 → $97,574 (+53.3%)	$105,694 → $112,614 (+6.5%)
Median home value	$298,000 → $401,000 (+34.6%)	$316,700 → $354,600 (+12.0%)
Median gross rent	$1,228 → $1,548 (+26.1%)	$2,054 → $2,540 (+23.7%)

Farmingdale

Population

1,2991,399

Median household income

$63,650$97,574

Median home value

$298,000$401,000

Median gross rent

$1,228$1,548

Roosevelt

Population

8541,059

Median household income

$105,694$112,614

Median home value

$316,700$354,600

Median gross rent

$2,054$2,540

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Farmingdale	Roosevelt
Under 5	3.4%	8.0%
5 to 17	15.2%	23.0%
18 to 24	17.3%	7.0%
25 to 34	12.1%	7.4%
35 to 44	10.7%	14.8%
45 to 54	16.6%	7.0%
55 to 64	9.1%	14.4%
65 to 74	11.9%	11.5%
75 and over	3.9%	6.9%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Farmingdale	Roosevelt
White (non-Hispanic)	82.8%	61.3%
Black or African American	2.3%	0.7%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	1.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.1%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.7%	2.4%
Hispanic or Latino	11.1%	34.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Farmingdale	Roosevelt
No high school diploma	5.1%	1.5%
High school graduate	28.6%	18.3%
Some college or associate's	28.8%	34.5%
Bachelor's degree	29.6%	25.5%
Graduate or professional degree	7.8%	20.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Farmingdale	Roosevelt
Drove alone	82.1%	77.5%
Carpooled	7.7%	1.1%
Public transit	0.9%	1.3%
Walked	1.9%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	7.4%	19.7%
Other means	0.0%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Farmingdale	Roosevelt
1-unit, detached	57.6%	71.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	24.5%
2 to 4 units	10.4%	2.7%
5 to 19 units	31.1%	1.6%
20 or more units	0.8%	0.3%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Farmingdale	Roosevelt
Poverty rate	2.2%	0.8%
Average household size	2.39	2.93
Mean commute (minutes)	27	39
Median year structure built	1972	1938