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Camden 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. 37 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 — 0.35× the U.S. rate (between 0.35× and 1.83× 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. 34 ZIP cells in this county are withheld, 30 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   Camden County pet care — 35–183% of the U.S. rate

14 pet care are counted in Camden County — 0.2 per 10,000 people present (residents + daytime workers), 35% 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 10% between 2015 and 2023 (10 → 11). 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 08003 (Cherry Hill), 08021 (Clementon), 08012 (Blackwood) — well above the national rate. On measured density alone, the lowest-density residential ZIPs with a published count are 08012 (Blackwood), 08021 (Clementon), 08003 (Cherry Hill).

Census County Business Patterns (2023) puts the county-wide count at 34 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: Camden County sits at 35% of the U.S. rate for pet care. 30 ZIPs with population have no published count (each 0–2 businesses), so the true per-capita rate is between 35% and 183% of the U.S. rate. Why. The highest measured density is in 08003 and 08021; the lowest measured density is in 08012 and 08021.

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
14–82
published count; upper bound counts each withheld ZIP cell as 2 (34 cells) (2023)
Per 10,000 present
0.2
residents + daytime workers
U.S. average
0.6
per 10,000 present
County index
0.35×
vs. U.S.
Latest year (CBP)
34
2023 — $6M annual payroll
Residents
542,442
33 ZIPs with data
Workers
196,253
jobs located in county

Is the area growing?

Population
533,988
Census PEP, July 1 2024
Change since 2020
+2.1%
+10,837 people
Net migration 2024
+3,066
international +3,689, domestic −623
Jobs located here
207,678
LODES 2022, −3.5% since 2019

Camden County had an estimated 533,988 residents on July 1, 2024 — 2.1% more than in 2020 (+10,837). In the latest year it gained 4,412 people: births minus deaths +1,323, international migration +3,689, domestic migration −623. Components are published separately and may not sum exactly.

207,678 jobs were located in the county in 2022 (−3.5% since 2019), and 251,981 employed residents lived there (−0.4% 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
08045 Lawnside
+17.4%
08034 Cherry Hill
+16.3%
08033 Haddonfield
+11.7%
ZIP losing residents
2015–19 → 2020–24
Change

No ZIP had a statistically significant decrease.

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
241
no paid employees (2024)
Receipts
$4.3M
published gross receipts
Receipts per business
$18K
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 10% since 2015

Number of pet care in Camden 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.

10
2015
9
2018
9
2020
10
2021
11
2022
11
2023

Highest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
08003 Cherry Hill
247%
08021 Clementon
153%
08012 Blackwood
96%

Lowest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
08012 Blackwood
96%
08021 Clementon
153%
08003 Cherry Hill
247%
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.

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
08003Cherry Hill 31,80913,482 6 1.6 247% High density
08021Clementon 49,3054,823 5 1.0 153% High density
08012Blackwood 41,81215,146 3 0.6 96% Below average
08002Cherry Hill 24,01520,207 0–2 — — Not published
08004Atco 11,4291,852 0–2 — — Not published
08007Barrington 5,4171,991 0–2 — — Not published
08009Berlin 14,3465,488 0–2 — — Not published
08018Cedar Brook —446 0–2 — — Not published
08026Gibbsboro 2,4351,364 0–2 — — Not published
08029Glendora 5,459360 0–2 — — Not published
08030Gloucester City 13,2172,726 0–2 — — Not published
08031Bellmawr 11,7375,089 0–2 — — Not published
08033Haddonfield 17,7634,530 0–2 — — Not published
08034Cherry Hill 20,90112,857 0–2 — — Not published
08035Haddon Heights 7,5512,071 0–2 — — Not published
08043Voorhees 31,19120,235 0–2 — — Not published
08045Lawnside 3,2003,110 0–2 — — Not published
08049Magnolia 5,282686 0–2 — — Not published
08059Mount Ephraim 5,8051,423 0–2 — — Not published
08078Runnemede 8,0512,117 0–2 — — Not published
08081Sicklerville 50,2646,489 0–2 — — Not published
08083Somerdale 9,6062,531 0–2 — — Not published
08084Stratford 7,0182,035 0–2 — — Not published
08089Waterford Works 4,231204 0–2 — — Not published
08091West Berlin 5,9634,726 0–2 — — Not published
08095Winslow 0171 0–2 — — Not published
08099Bellmawr —10 0–2 — — Not published
08101Camden —529 0–2 — — Not published
08102Camden 8,2926,899 0–2 — — Not published
08103Camden 12,57321,220 0–2 — — Not published
08104Camden 22,1483,923 0–2 — — Not published
08105Camden 26,4832,158 0–2 — — Not published
08106Audubon 9,7312,279 0–2 — — Not published
08107Oaklyn 13,5741,158 0–2 — — Not published
08108Collingswood 18,6544,183 0–2 — — Not published
08109Merchantville 24,0229,495 0–2 — — Not published
08110Pennsauken 19,1589,396 0–2 — — Not published

Scroll the table sideways to see all columns.

Find an actual space in Camden

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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: 34 establishments and $6M 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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