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How New Jersey's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across New Jersey — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up to the state by resident population.

Data release 2026583 of 593 ZIP codes scored · 9.3M residents represented

Score snapshot

60.47Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
63.34Median scoremiddle of 583 scored ZIPs
79.46Highest score08550 · Princeton Junction
25.60Lowest score07114 · Newark
53.86Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#2State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
22%Residents in below-average ZIPs2.1M of 9.3M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.63MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs7% of the state
1.3MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs14% of the state
25ZIPs in the national top 100led by 08550 · Princeton Junction

New Jersey's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 583
  1. 108550in Princeton Junction · 21,067 residents79.46
  2. 207078in Short Hills · 14,613 residents77.90
  3. 308536in Plainsboro · 20,817 residents77.22
  4. 407046in Mountain Lakes · 4,585 residents76.54
  5. 507041in Millburn · 7,532 residents76.49
  6. 608502in Belle Mead · 11,849 residents76.48
  7. 708558in Skillman · 7,648 residents76.21
  8. 807670in Tenafly · 15,319 residents75.86
  9. 907928in Chatham · 19,974 residents75.64
  10. 1007627in Demarest · 4,911 residents75.50
  11. 1107021in Essex Fells · 2,361 residents75.46
  12. 1207739in Little Silver · 6,105 residents75.04
  13. 1307704in Fair Haven · 6,170 residents75.01
  14. 1407039in Livingston · 31,488 residents74.96
  15. 1507922in Berkeley Heights · 12,195 residents74.85
  16. 1607423in Ho-Ho-Kus · 4,270 residents74.82
  17. 1707632in Englewood Cliffs · 5,362 residents74.78
  18. 1807620in Alpine · 1,588 residents74.70
  19. 1907028in Glen Ridge · 8,022 residents74.56
  20. 2007945in Mendham · 9,690 residents74.47
  21. 2108836in Martinsville · 3,855 residents74.47
  22. 2208540in Princeton · 50,388 residents74.07
  23. 2307311in Jersey City · 1,714 residents74.02
  24. 2408542in Princeton · 2,533 residents73.92
  25. 2507043in Montclair · 13,256 residents73.90
  26. 2607090in Westfield · 31,111 residents73.78
  27. 2707677in Woodcliff Lake · 6,152 residents73.72
  28. 2807970in Mount Freedom · 215 residents73.68
  29. 2907751in Morganville · 21,109 residents73.61
  30. 3007746in Marlboro · 18,476 residents73.56
  31. 3108810in Dayton · 7,952 residents73.52
  32. 3207649in Oradell · 8,235 residents73.51
  33. 3307920in Basking Ridge · 28,753 residents73.46
  34. 3407738in Lincroft · 6,939 residents73.35
  35. 3507045in Montville · 10,561 residents73.32
  36. 3607926in Brookside · 161 residents73.30
  37. 3707417in Franklin Lakes · 11,112 residents73.29
  38. 3807733in Holmdel · 17,166 residents73.27
  39. 3908534in Pennington · 13,272 residents73.15
  40. 4007310in Jersey City · 16,015 residents73.15
  41. 4108820in South Plainfield · 39,978 residents73.09
  42. 4207974in New Providence · 13,349 residents73.04
  43. 4307023in Fanwood · 7,799 residents72.96
  44. 4407092in Mountainside · 7,049 residents72.82
  45. 4507661in River Edge · 12,091 residents72.81
  46. 4608736in Manasquan · 13,223 residents72.79
  47. 4708853in Neshanic Station · 5,634 residents72.73
  48. 4807059in Warren · 16,811 residents72.69
  49. 4908750in Sea Girt · 3,483 residents72.62
  50. 5007450in Ridgewood · 26,308 residents72.46
Open the full New Jersey ranking →One page, all 583 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across New Jersey’s 593 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 583 of them carry enough measured coverage across all nine health domains to enter the population-weighted composite above; the rest are held out rather than filled from a coarser geography.

Assembled from the same ZIP-level data as every per-ZIP page. Read the full method →

Where New Jersey stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where New Jersey's ZIP codes sit against ZIP codes across the country on each of them, weighted by how many residents live in each one — strongest at the top.

Strongest domain

Mental Health · 89th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 89th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 32nd

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 32nd percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Mental Health89
Chronic Disease Burden82
Disability75
Healthcare Access75
Social Need / SDOH68
Risk Behavior60
Preventive Care55
Climate / Disaster Risk54
Environmental Hazard32

Read each bar as a national percentile from 0 to 100. The dark line marks the national median: a bar past it means New Jersey's ZIP codes typically place above most ZIP codes in the country on that domain. A domain New Jersey cannot place honestly is shown greyed as "Not enough data" rather than given a number.

Each figure is the population-weighted average of this state's ZIP codes' standing on that domain, compared with the ZIP codes measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. A ZIP code counts toward a domain only if it carries enough measured data on it and enough of New Jersey's residents live in the ZIP codes that do; the rest are held out rather than filled in from a coarser geography. Read the full method →

Why this matters

The ZipVitals Score combines nine domains of health — from chronic disease and preventive care to environmental hazard, social need, and healthcare access — into one 0–100 index for each ZIP code, computed the same way everywhere from public federal and academic data. The New Jersey figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe New Jersey's residents rather than a coarser geography relabeled as the state.

A high score describes favorable documented conditions; it is not a claim about individual residents, and it does not capture everything that shapes a community's health. Where a ZIP code scores low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.