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Bergen County, NJ — Pet care Saturation

How many pet care exist per person present — residents plus daytime workers — by ZIP code, compared with the U.S. average. Establishment data: Census ZBP 2023. Population: ACS 2024 5-year. 70 ZIP codes analyzed.

Includes: Pet grooming · Boarding & kennels · Dog day care · Pet sitting services. Counted together because official statistics use one 812910 code.

Measured density: Range spans bands — 0.63× the U.S. rate (between 0.63× and 2.05× once withheld ZIP cells are counted)

Why a range: Census does not publish a ZIP-by-industry count when that ZIP has 0–2 businesses. 57 ZIP cells in this county are withheld, 53 of them with residents. Each could hold 0, 1, or 2 businesses: counting them all as 0 gives the low end, counting them all as 2 gives the high end — the data cannot say where the truth sits. The density range uses only the populated cells, since ZIPs without residents are excluded from per-person rates. How ranges work

Range spans the U.S. rate   Bergen County pet care — 63–205% of the U.S. rate

47 pet care are counted in Bergen County — 0.4 per 10,000 people present (residents + daytime workers), 63% of the U.S. rate of 0.6.

On the comparable ZIP set (ZIPs with a published count in every year), the total has risen 9% between 2015 and 2023 (11 → 12). That set is smaller than today's county total. 2020–2021 were pandemic-distorted, and Census rounds counts, so small moves are within noise.

Measured supply density is highest in 07648 (Norwood), 07463 (Waldwick), 07649 (Oradell) — well above the national rate. On measured density alone, the lowest-density residential ZIPs with a published count are 07666 (Teaneck), 07430 (Mahwah), 07450 (Ridgewood).

Census County Business Patterns (2023) puts the county-wide count at 97 establishments, including locations in ZIP codes that do not map to a ZCTA — so it can run slightly above the sum of the ZIP rows on this page. It is annual, so it lags more than QCEW.

Measured density: Bergen County sits at 63% of the U.S. rate for pet care. 53 ZIPs with population have no published count (each 0–2 businesses), so the true per-capita rate is between 63% and 205% of the U.S. rate. Why. The highest measured density is in 07648 and 07463; the lowest measured density is in 07666 and 07430.

This is a supply-side read: it counts existing pet care and the people present, not foot traffic, income, rent, or whether locals want more. Treat low density as a question to check, not an answer.

Pet care
47–161
published count; upper bound counts each withheld ZIP cell as 2 (57 cells) (2023)
Per 10,000 present
0.4
residents + daytime workers
U.S. average
0.6
per 10,000 present
County index
0.63×
vs. U.S.
Latest year (CBP)
97
2023 — $17M annual payroll
Residents
962,316
66 ZIPs with data
Workers
439,299
jobs located in county

Is the area growing?

Population
978,641
Census PEP, July 1 2024
Change since 2020
+2.6%
+24,930 people
Net migration 2024
+10,155
international +12,297, domestic −2,142
Jobs located here
454,177
LODES 2022, −0.0% since 2019

Bergen County had an estimated 978,641 residents on July 1, 2024 — 2.6% more than in 2020 (+24,930). In the latest year it gained 12,157 people: births minus deaths +1,966, international migration +12,297, domestic migration −2,142. Components are published separately and may not sum exactly.

454,177 jobs were located in the county in 2022 (−0.0% since 2019), and 465,185 employed residents lived there (+1.1% since 2019). LODES counts wage and salary jobs covered by unemployment insurance plus federal jobs; it excludes the self-employed and military, and counts jobs rather than unique people. 2019→2022 spans the pandemic, so read it as one change, not a trend.

Population and migration say whether the customer base is growing. They do not say whether people want another business of this type. Definitions and limits →  ·  Full county detail →

ZIP gaining residents
2015–19 → 2020–24
Change
07020 Edgewater
+19.0%
07075 Wood Ridge
+16.5%
07074 Moonachie
+15.1%
ZIP losing residents
2015–19 → 2020–24
Change
07630 Emerson
−3.8%
07432 Midland Park
−3.1%
07430 Mahwah
−3.0%

ACS 5-year estimates for 2015–2019 and 2020–2024. Only ZIPs with at least 2,000 residents in both windows and a change larger than the survey margin of error (90%) are listed — small ZIPs move a lot on paper without a real signal.

Nonemployer businesses (no paid employees)

Nonemployer businesses
451
no paid employees (2024)
Receipts
$11.2M
published gross receipts
Receipts per business
$25K
gross, not profit

Census Nonemployer Statistics counts businesses with no paid employees — a separate universe from the employer establishments counted above; a business is in one or the other, never both. They are not storefronts by definition: many are home-based, mobile, or part-time.

We show them beside the density index, not inside it. In categories such as nail and beauty salons, child care, and pet care, one-person businesses can outnumber employer establishments, so the employer-only count understates how many businesses exist. That is not evidence of higher demand.

Receipts are gross revenue reported for these businesses — not profit, and not the size of the local market. Census publishes this only at county level, so it is not shown on the ZIP map. See methodology.

Saturation map

Each ZIP area is shaded by its density of this business type per person present (residents + workers) vs. the U.S. average. Click any ZIP to zoom to its boundary, see its numbers, and switch to aerial imagery. Individual mapped shops appear as dots at street level — Show locations zooms you in to them (scroll or double-click to zoom).

Basemap:
Under 50% 50–100% 100–150% 150–250% 250%+ 0–2 (not published) / no data ZIP total (dot size) Mapped shop (OpenStreetMap, street level)

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

White dots are ZIP totals from the official Census count — the bigger the dot, the more pet care in that ZIP. They are aggregated, not individual shops. Turquoise dots are individual locations mapped in OpenStreetMap, shown only at street level; they are crowd-sourced and indicative, may be incomplete, and do not equal the official counts. Only the official ZIP totals feed the saturation index.

Market trend — up 9% since 2015

Number of pet care in Bergen County across 2015–2023, on a consistent set of ZIP codes present in every year — so changes are real, not ZIP-boundary artifacts. 2015/2018 are pre-pandemic baselines; 2020/2021 are COVID-distorted.

11
2015
10
2018
11
2020
12
2021
12
2022
12
2023

Highest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
07648 Norwood
706%
07463 Waldwick
553%
07649 Oradell
502%
07642 Hillsdale
433%
07436 Oakland
407%
07073 East Rutherford
347%
07631 Englewood
204%
07675 Westwood
203%
07010 Cliffside Park
177%
07024 Fort Lee
168%
07450 Ridgewood
154%
07430 Mahwah
130%
07666 Teaneck
97%

Lowest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
07666 Teaneck
97%
07430 Mahwah
130%
07450 Ridgewood
154%
07024 Fort Lee
168%
07010 Cliffside Park
177%
07675 Westwood
203%
07631 Englewood
204%
07073 East Rutherford
347%
07436 Oakland
407%
07642 Hillsdale
433%
07649 Oradell
502%
07463 Waldwick
553%
07648 Norwood
706%
Low measured density is not evidence of opportunity. A ZIP with few pet care may simply lack foot traffic, retail space, or demand. We rank only residential and mixed ZIPs here; employment hubs and visitor destinations are listed separately below. ZIPs where Census did not publish a count (0–2 businesses) are not ranked: they may be the least served of all, but the data cannot tell 0 from 1 or 2. Verify those locally.

Employment hubs & destinations

These ZIPs have far more workers (or visitors) than residents, so their counts are driven by daytime and visitor demand — not a place to read "shortage" from resident numbers alone.

ZIPNeighborhoodType ResidentsWorkersPet careIndex
07608Teterboro Destination 13610,355 0–2 —
07632Englewood Cliffs Employment hub 5,36213,577 0–2 —

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All ZIP codes

Click a column header to sort. Index = pet care per 10,000 people present (residents + 0.5×workers) ÷ the U.S. average. 100% = exactly average.

ZIPNeighborhood ResidentsWorkersPet care Per 10kIndexStatus
07648Norwood 5,7242,017 3 4.5 706% Very high density
07463Waldwick 10,1642,612 4 3.5 553% Very high density
07649Oradell 8,2352,469 3 3.2 502% Very high density
07642Hillsdale 10,1441,669 3 2.7 433% Very high density
07436Oakland 12,7405,631 4 2.6 407% Very high density
07073East Rutherford 10,31315,889 4 2.2 347% Very high density
07631Englewood 29,63818,271 5 1.3 204% High density
07675Westwood 27,3497,621 4 1.3 203% High density
07010Cliffside Park 25,7812,001 3 1.1 177% High density
07024Fort Lee 40,02414,472 5 1.1 168% High density
07450Ridgewood 26,3089,108 3 1.0 154% High density
07430Mahwah 25,49121,877 3 0.8 130% Above average
07666Teaneck 41,87613,764 3 0.6 97% Below average
07020Edgewater 14,7595,044 0–2 — — Not published
07022Fairview 15,0992,384 0–2 — — Not published
07026Garfield 32,7835,296 0–2 — — Not published
07031North Arlington 16,4612,699 0–2 — — Not published
07057Wallington 11,8892,012 0–2 — — Not published
07070Rutherford 18,8949,372 0–2 — — Not published
07071Lyndhurst 22,46310,850 0–2 — — Not published
07072Carlstadt 6,37812,485 0–2 — — Not published
07074Moonachie 3,1266,000 0–2 — — Not published
07075Wood Ridge 10,2181,521 0–2 — — Not published
07401Allendale 6,8652,822 0–2 — — Not published
07407Elmwood Park 21,4128,955 0–2 — — Not published
07410Fair Lawn 35,61012,053 0–2 — — Not published
07417Franklin Lakes 11,1125,612 0–2 — — Not published
07423Ho Ho Kus 4,270965 0–2 — — Not published
07432Midland Park 7,0192,772 0–2 — — Not published
07446Ramsey 14,80510,442 0–2 — — Not published
07451Ridgewood —457 0–2 — — Not published
07452Glen Rock 12,1542,864 0–2 — — Not published
07458Saddle River 11,8283,358 0–2 — — Not published
07481Wyckoff 17,0505,460 0–2 — — Not published
07495Mahwah —1,867 0–2 — — Not published
07601Hackensack 46,05736,589 0–2 — — Not published
07602Hackensack —308 0–2 — — Not published
07603Bogota 9,360996 0–2 — — Not published
07604Hasbrouck Heights 12,1153,625 0–2 — — Not published
07605Leonia 9,3791,667 0–2 — — Not published
07606South Hackensack 2,7705,078 0–2 — — Not published
07607Maywood 10,0932,752 0–2 — — Not published
07608Teterboro 13610,355 0–2 — — Not published
07620Alpine 1,588241 0–2 — — Not published
07621Bergenfield 28,4503,611 0–2 — — Not published
07624Closter 8,6063,943 0–2 — — Not published
07626Cresskill 9,1741,394 0–2 — — Not published
07627Demarest 4,911560 0–2 — — Not published
07628Dumont 18,2791,482 0–2 — — Not published
07630Emerson 7,3052,136 0–2 — — Not published
07632Englewood Cliffs 5,36213,577 0–2 — — Not published
07640Harrington Park 4,954407 0–2 — — Not published
07641Haworth 3,363641 0–2 — — Not published
07643Little Ferry 10,9963,538 0–2 — — Not published
07644Lodi 26,0826,204 0–2 — — Not published
07645Montvale 8,90111,077 0–2 — — Not published
07646New Milford 16,9951,922 0–2 — — Not published
07647Northvale 5,2886,772 0–2 — — Not published
07650Palisades Park 20,2903,302 0–2 — — Not published
07652Paramus 26,56839,017 0–2 — — Not published
07653Paramus —252 0–2 — — Not published
07656Park Ridge 9,4062,154 0–2 — — Not published
07657Ridgefield 11,4984,274 0–2 — — Not published
07660Ridgefield Park 13,23510,823 0–2 — — Not published
07661River Edge 12,0912,257 0–2 — — Not published
07662Rochelle Park 5,8694,696 0–2 — — Not published
07663Saddle Brook 14,41911,453 0–2 — — Not published
07670Tenafly 15,3193,343 0–2 — — Not published
07676Township Of Washington 9,323697 0–2 — — Not published
07677Woodcliff Lake 6,1528,349 0–2 — — Not published

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Census withholds some ZIP-by-industry cells to protect small businesses. 0–2 means the cell was not published (Census publishes industry counts only at 3+ per ZIP), so the ZIP is left unranked rather than counted as zero. ~ means the count is estimated from the broader industry group and can be off by a business or two.

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Methodology & sources

Establishments. U.S. Census ZIP Code Business Patterns (ZBP 2023), NAICS 812910 — pet care (except veterinary) services. Counts establishments with paid employees. ZBP is published annually with a ~2-year lag.

Fresh county signal. This industry has no clean QCEW series, so the freshest county signal is Census County Business Patterns 2023: 97 establishments and $17M in annual payroll county-wide. This count includes locations in ZIP codes that do not map to a ZCTA, so it can be slightly higher than the sum of the ZIP rows. CBP is annual and slower than QCEW. It cannot be broken down by ZIP.

Population. U.S. Census American Community Survey 2024 5-year ZCTA population (table B01003). Workers are the ZIP's total employment from the same 2023 ZBP file.

Demand ("people present"). Demand comes from residents and daytime workers: residents + 0.5 × workers. This is the single documented assumption in the model and can be tuned.

Index. index = (ZIP establishments ÷ ZIP demand × 10,000) ÷ the U.S. average for this industry (0.63 per 10,000 present). It is a supply-side density measure; it does not capture income, rent, tourism, or whether locals actually want more.

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