Table 8. Median Household Income by Selected Household Characteristics
New Jersey and United States: 1999 to 2006 (in 2006 dollars)
Two-year Moving Average	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
New Jersey
ALL HOUSEHOLDS	$61,947	$61,361	$61,949	$62,890	$61,482	$63,315	$67,391
RACE of HOUSEHOLDER
White	$64,533	$64,843	$65,393	$65,859	$64,560	$67,763	$72,011
Black	$45,413	$40,217	$38,771	$41,015	$40,672	$44,738	$43,980
Hispanic origin	$44,224	$41,351	$44,879	$45,820	$40,909	$42,522	$46,534
SEX of HOUSEHOLDER
Male Householders	$75,285	$73,152	$72,704	$74,192	$72,486	$74,009	$78,476
Female Householders	$46,738	$47,522	$48,608	$49,813	$49,956	$52,796	$55,894
TENURE
Owner	$78,982	$77,662	$79,347	$80,010	$79,201	$81,925	$86,606
Renter	$36,946	$35,913	$37,558	$38,216	$34,991	$36,018	$39,672
United States
ALL HOUSEHOLDS	$49,413	$48,748	$47,825	$47,507	$47,437	$47,614	$48,046
RACE of HOUSEHOLDER
White	$51,682	$51,311	$50,663	$50,294	$49,954	$50,021	$50,445
Black	$34,669	$34,565	$32,989	$32,449	$32,281	$31,958	$31,880
Hispanic origin	$38,178	$39,692	$38,636	$36,623	$36,365	$36,809	$37,426
SEX of HOUSEHOLDER
Male Householders	$58,860	$58,166	$57,051	$56,281	$55,691	$55,536	$55,859
Female Householders	$39,995	$40,493	$38,803	$39,162	$39,087	$39,149	$39,709
TENURE
Owner	$60,423	$59,511	$58,685	$58,666	$58,695	$58,762	$59,490
Renter	$32,288	$32,252	$31,598	$30,456	$29,741	$29,554	$30,062
Note: The New Jersey income figures were inflated by the average of New York-metro and
Philadelphia-metro Consumer Price Indexes for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U).
The US figures were inflated by the national CPI-U.
Source: US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey (CPS): March 2000 through 2007.
Prepared by : NJ Dept of Labor & Workforce Dev., Div. of Labor Market & Demographic Research, 11/07.