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A town of 1,759, settled in 1871.
The best of Alpine’s subject grades are an A+ for incomes, health, and schools; the weakest is a D− for cost of living. 76% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Alpine, above both New Jersey’s towns (45%) and U.S. towns (29%). Only 1 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score higher on hazard risk. Alpine is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 75% of U.S. towns. Alpine’s trail density is 4.8 miles per square mile, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 0.7 and U.S. towns at 0.4. Only 22 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score higher on the outdoors. Alpine has 4 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Palisades Interstate Park and Blackledge-Kearney. Alpine has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Alpine beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Alpine | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 2.7% | 7% |
Where Alpine’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Alpine is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 268 in 1900, 1,762 in 2020. The archive holds 9 old photos and papers going back to 1750 and 4 maps from 1897 on.
4 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Alpine. Close and well known come first.
Big draw13 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw14 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaYankee Stadium
Big draw13 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw15 mi TheatreStudio 54Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Madison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Alpine, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Alpine.
The typical Alpine home is worth about $3,209,000, up 13.1% in a year, 6 times the New Jersey typical home. 93% of Alpine households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its public schools are run by the Alpine Public School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 146 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests
10% of adults report frequent mental distress in Alpine. Of the 469 New Jersey towns we compare, none has a lower share of adults who smoke cigarettes than Alpine. 8.7% of adults report frequent physical distress in Alpine.
| Alpine | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 15% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 23% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 28% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 5.2% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Alpine | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 2.7% | 7% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.6% | 14.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.9% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The FEMA risk score in Alpine is 4 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most working residents leave Alpine for work: only 1% work in town. Alpine’s median household income is $247,000. The top destinations are New York (36%), Englewood (3%) and Englewood Cliffs (3%).
| Alpine | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $247,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.5% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Work from home | 17% | 16% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
The biggest place to walk is Palisades Interstate Park, 918 acres with 16.6 miles of trail.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Palisades Interstate Park | 16.6 mi | 918 |
| 2. Greenbrook Nature Sanctuary | 1.4 mi | 37 |
| 3. Alpine Lookout | 0.2 mi | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Alpine has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 23° and about 33 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
71 within 15 miles of the center of Alpine
About 5 of every 100 Alpine residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
4 places in Alpine on the National Register of Historic Places.
4 notable people were born in Alpine.
Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, US
Alpine is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Midtown Manhattan. It is the easternmost town in New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,762, a decrease of 87 (−4.7%) from the 2010 census count of 1,849, which in turn reflected a decline of 334 (−15.3%) from the 2,183 counted in the 2000 census. In 2012, Forbes ranked Alpine as America's most expensive ZIP Code with a median home price of $4.25 million. It was ranked 4th in the magazine's 2010 listing of "America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes", with a median home price of $3,814,885. In 2009, Forbes ranked Alpine first, along with Greenwich, …
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9 towns share a border with Alpine.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine | — | — | D− | B+ | A+ | A+ |
| Demarest | #123 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Cresskill | #86 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Closter | #58 | A | D− | B+ | A | A+ |
| Tenafly | #46 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Norwood | #64 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Rockleigh | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Alpine has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Demarest, Cresskill, Tenafly and Norwood report no FBI crime data of their own. Rockleigh isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Alpine with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes. That is 32.4 years of the area's median household income ($99,155 across the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.
4 notable people were born here, including Harold Lamb and Robbie E.
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