Hotel Price Categories for Mount Ephraim, New Jersey

The hotels on the Rate Table and the Interactive Map are grouped into color coded price categories based on their average room rates.  The average rate for each hotel is calculated from the average of it's high and low room rates observed over a period of one year.

The latest hotel rate analysis for Mount Ephraim, NJ was performed on April 7, 2009.  The analysis is based on the average room rates for 219 hotels within Mount Ephraim, NJ and adjacent towns forming the Philadelphia, PA-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area.  The current classification breaks based on this analysis are as follows:

See Hotel Rate Analysis and Classification Details below for a detailed explanation of the classification price breaks.

Automated Rate Analysis for Mount Ephraim, New Jersey Hotels

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Hotel Rate Analysis and Classification Details

The April 7, 2009 rate analysis for Mount Ephraim, New Jersey hotels is based on the average rates of 219 hotels within Mount Ephraim, NJ and adjacent towns forming the Philadelphia, PA-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area.  The average rate for each hotel is calculated from the average of it's high and low room rates observed over a period of one year.  The rates range between the following values:

Lowest Average Room Rate:  $0 - Red Carpet Inn Brooklawn
Highest Average Room Rate:  $298 - Sheraton University City Hotel

The graph on the right shows the typical shape of a room rate distribution for a metropolitan area.  The colored areas depict the price breaks used to classify the hotels.  Rates greater than two standard deviations above the mean for all values are considered high end outliners and are removed from the price break calculations.

For the April 7, 2009 analysis, the resulting mean room rate for Philadelphia, PA-NJ MSA hotels is $146 and the standard deviation is $50.

Hotels with average rates greater than one standard deviation above the mean are categorized as deluxe.  One standard deviation above the mean is $196, so Mount Ephraim hotels with an average rate higher than $196 are classified as deluxe hotels ( magenta ) on the map.

Hotels with average rates falling in the lower half of the range below the mean are categorized as budget.  The rate halfway between the low rate and the mean rate is $73, so Mount Ephraim hotels with an average rate lower than $73 are classified as budget hotels (green ) on the map.

Everything in between is categorized as moderate priced hotels, so Mount Ephraim hotels with average room rates greater the $73 and less that $196 are classified as moderate priced hotels ( cyan ) on the map.