Great Meadows vs Silver Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Great Meadows and Silver Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Great Meadows has the higher population (353 vs 319 in Silver Lake). Silver Lake has the higher median household income ($103,750 vs $73,836 in Great Meadows). Great Meadows has the higher median home value ($372,100 vs $263,300 in Silver Lake).

Population, income & housing

	Great Meadows	Silver Lake
Population	353	319
Median age	74.0 yrs	56.4 yrs
Median household income	$73,836	$103,750
Median home value	$372,100	$263,300
Housing units	236	167
Homeownership rate	100.0%	91.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.4%	33.1%
Unemployment rate	7.1%	7.9%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Great Meadows	Silver Lake
Population	32 → 353 (+1003.1%)	299 → 319 (+6.7%)
Median household income	$63,513 → $73,836 (+16.3%)	$73,750 → $103,750 (+40.7%)
Median home value	$369,500 → $372,100 (+0.7%)	$248,100 → $263,300 (+6.1%)
Median gross rent	—	$1,375 → $1,313 (-4.5%)

Great Meadows

Population

32353

Median household income

$63,513$73,836

Median home value

$369,500$372,100

Silver Lake

Population

299319

Median household income

$73,750$103,750

Median home value

$248,100$263,300

Median gross rent

$1,375$1,313

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Great Meadows	Silver Lake
Under 5	8.8%	6.6%
5 to 17	0.0%	11.3%
18 to 24	0.0%	3.4%
25 to 34	15.9%	10.0%
35 to 44	0.0%	11.3%
45 to 54	0.0%	3.1%
55 to 64	0.0%	23.5%
65 to 74	54.1%	24.5%
75 and over	21.2%	6.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Great Meadows	Silver Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	100.0%	97.8%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.9%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.3%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Great Meadows	Silver Lake
No high school diploma	0.0%	1.6%
High school graduate	32.9%	10.8%
Some college or associate's	49.7%	54.6%
Bachelor's degree	17.4%	19.5%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	13.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Great Meadows	Silver Lake
Drove alone	64.6%	71.6%
Carpooled	0.0%	16.9%
Public transit	0.0%	2.0%
Walked	0.0%	2.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	35.4%	7.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Great Meadows	Silver Lake
1-unit, detached	100.0%	95.8%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	4.2%
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

	Great Meadows	Silver Lake
Poverty rate	0.0%	13.8%
Average household size	2.06	1.98
Mean commute (minutes)	—	27
Median year structure built	1938	1959