Holiday City-Berkeley vs Mystic Island

A side-by-side comparison of Holiday City-Berkeley and Mystic Island: population, income, housing, and more.

Holiday City-Berkeley and Mystic Island are places in New Jersey. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Holiday City-Berkeley has the higher population (12,896 vs 7,616 in Mystic Island). Mystic Island has the higher median household income ($71,917 vs $47,855 in Holiday City-Berkeley). Mystic Island has the higher median home value ($290,000 vs $237,200 in Holiday City-Berkeley).

Population, income & housing

	Holiday City-Berkeley	Mystic Island
Population	12,896	7,616
Median age	70.0 yrs	56.8 yrs
Median household income	$47,855	$71,917
Median home value	$237,200	$290,000
Median gross rent	$1,584	$1,786
Housing units	9,046	4,995
Homeownership rate	89.4%	89.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.2%	24.4%
Unemployment rate	8.5%	4.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Holiday City-Berkeley	Mystic Island
Population	12,040 → 12,896 (+7.1%)	8,484 → 7,616 (-10.2%)
Median household income	$40,065 → $47,855 (+19.4%)	$57,197 → $71,917 (+25.7%)
Median home value	$161,600 → $237,200 (+46.8%)	$212,500 → $290,000 (+36.5%)
Median gross rent	$1,371 → $1,584 (+15.5%)	$1,452 → $1,786 (+23.0%)

Holiday City-Berkeley

Population

12,04012,896

Median household income

$40,065$47,855

Median home value

$161,600$237,200

Median gross rent

$1,371$1,584

Mystic Island

Population

8,4847,616

Median household income

$57,197$71,917

Median home value

$212,500$290,000

Median gross rent

$1,452$1,786

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Holiday City-Berkeley	Mystic Island
Under 5	0.7%	2.4%
5 to 17	0.4%	11.6%
18 to 24	0.9%	3.8%
25 to 34	2.9%	7.2%
35 to 44	2.1%	11.3%
45 to 54	3.0%	10.3%
55 to 64	22.2%	23.2%
65 to 74	35.8%	15.6%
75 and over	32.0%	14.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Holiday City-Berkeley	Mystic Island
White (non-Hispanic)	87.8%	85.6%
Black or African American	2.5%	2.5%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.0%
Asian	1.2%	0.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.2%	0.0%
Some other race	0.7%	0.7%
Two or more races	1.5%	3.0%
Hispanic or Latino	6.0%	7.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Holiday City-Berkeley	Mystic Island
No high school diploma	11.6%	6.9%
High school graduate	44.2%	44.6%
Some college or associate's	26.1%	24.1%
Bachelor's degree	13.5%	16.1%
Graduate or professional degree	4.7%	8.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Holiday City-Berkeley	Mystic Island
Drove alone	83.6%	81.8%
Carpooled	2.7%	6.2%
Public transit	0.0%	3.6%
Walked	0.9%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.4%	0.0%
Worked from home	12.4%	8.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Holiday City-Berkeley	Mystic Island
1-unit, detached	98.7%	95.8%
1-unit, attached	0.5%	2.4%
2 to 4 units	0.2%	0.6%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.4%
Mobile home & other	0.6%	0.8%

Poverty & households

	Holiday City-Berkeley	Mystic Island
Poverty rate	8.4%	16.4%
Average household size	1.53	2.18
Mean commute (minutes)	31	39
Median year structure built	1978	1981