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Cost of living in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey

Cedar Knolls, New Jersey has about 4,882 people. Typical rent is $2,849 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $170,400 a year. Both figures are Census 2020–2024 medians, not a listing or your pay. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

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Typical rent is $2,849 a month.

Cedar Knolls is a Census community, not a separate city government in New Jersey. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $170,400 a year.

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People
4,882
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$2,849
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$170,400
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$646,700
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$2,233
Newark, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area

Cedar Knolls, New Jersey has about 4,882 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $646,700.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in Morris County is $2,233 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in Cedar Knolls. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

In the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area, prices sit at 112.6 when the U.S. average is 100. That is a 2024 BEA index.

New Jersey taxes wages. A typical combined sales tax is 6.6% as of January 1, 2026. That mix is statewide, not Cedar Knolls's exact store tax.

In July 2026, a typical New Jersey home paid 25.19¢ per kilowatt-hour. That is a state average from EIA, not Cedar Knolls's bill.

EIA did not publish a 2025 all-grades gas price for New Jersey in the table we use.

Among 485 places we list in New Jersey with a rent figure, 32 have higher typical rent than Cedar Knolls.

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Census 2020-2024. HUD rents for October 2026–September 2027. BEA prices for 2024. Taxes as of January 1, 2026. Checked 2026-10-16. 15,000 places are in this guide.