Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Audubon's standout: it is among the most walkable places in the country. Overall it grades B, ranked 251st of 466 in New Jersey. The median household earns $116K and it is healthier than 89% of U.S. towns. Its weakest subject is safety: its crime rate is higher than 87% of U.S. towns, with 1 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025. Audubon’s property crime rate is 44.4 per 1,000 residents, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 7.4 and U.S. towns at 9.9. On hazard risk, just 6 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do better.
Where Audubon beats most towns.
Where Audubon’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 Audubon is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D for safety (better than 13%), so the B overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,343 in 1910, 8,707 in 2020. The archive holds 9 old photos and papers going back to 1880 and 7 maps from 1891 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Audubon. Close and well known come first.
Big draw5 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw5 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw5 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw6 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw8 mi MuseumEastern State Penitentiary
Big draw13 mi MuseumLynnewood HallUSS New Jersey: Camera Operator: PH3 BRYANT, Public domain · Lincoln Financial Field: The original uploader was Betp at French Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Xfinity Mobile Arena: Jen Smith, CC BY 3.0 · Independence Hall: Mys 721tx, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eastern State Penitentiary: Davidt8, Public domain · Lynnewood Hall: Shuvaev, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Audubon, 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 Audubon.
Audubon carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding) and is healthy by national standards but mid-pack in New Jersey; it also reports property crime at 3 times the New Jersey rate.
Within New Jersey it is healthier than 55% of the 468 graded towns: New Jersey sets a high bar. Its widest gap with New Jersey is no health insurance: 7.2% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 11.3% statewide.
27% of adults have obesity in Audubon. Audubon beats the New Jersey average on 13 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 8.6% of adults have diabetes in Audubon.
| Audubon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 16% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 28% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 23% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 8.6% | 9.7% | 12% |
| What stands out | Audubon | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.2% | 11.3% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.3% | 14.3% |
| More adults with depression | 19.4% | 15.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its public schools are run by the Audubon Public School District. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Audubon Junior/Senior High School, with 801 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mansion Avenue SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades 3–6 | Grades 3–6 | 331 | B |
| Audubon Junior/Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 801 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 99% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $162 per resident a year; that rating is what its A+ for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Audubon is 7 of 100. Since 1978, 3 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Audubon.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Property crime runs at 44.4 per 1,000 residents, 3 times the New Jersey rate, most of it theft.
Audubon reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 87% report less. Audubon’s violent crime rate is 0.1 per 1,000 residents.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Most working residents leave Audubon for work: only 4% work in town. Since 2013, Audubon has added 417 jobs, to 2,179 in 2023. 2.9% of Audubon residents live below the poverty line.
| Audubon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 20% | 16% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 2.9% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $116,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The typical Audubon home is worth about $386,000, up 2.9% in a year, 33% below the New Jersey typical home.
| Audubon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,290 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 76% | 77% | 73% |
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Audubon has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 26° and about 22 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the New Jersey average. 48% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 44% across New Jersey.
| Audubon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 48% | 45% | 29% |
| Median age | 39 years | 42 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 22% | 21% | 22% |
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.1 points. Across New Jersey, 50.8% of residents are women.
| Audubon | NJ | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 13.3% | 11.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.7% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.7% | 8.4% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.3% | 12.9% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 16.7% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.5% | 12.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15% | 13.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 10.1% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.6% | 7.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.6% | 9.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 24.9% | 25.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 17.5% | 15% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6% | 6.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 29.2% | 26.1% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 18.8% | 17.6% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
| Audubon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1% | 11% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bobby Almand Memorial Field | 0.1 mi | 8 |
| 2. Audubon Sports Complex | — | 5 |
| 3. Charles F Wise III Memorial Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
29 within 15 miles of the center of Audubon
About 5 of every 100 Audubon residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
4 notable people were born in Audubon.
Borough in Camden County, New Jersey, US
Audubon is a borough in Camden County, in the southern portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 8,707, a decrease of 112 (−1.3%) from the 2010 census count of 8,819, which in turn had reflected a decline of 363 (−4.0%) from the 9,182 counted at the 2000 census. Located right outside of Philadelphia and the city of Camden, Audubon constitutes part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
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7 towns share a border with Audubon.
Haddonfield next door grades higher for schools (A to Audubon’s C) and lower for cost of living (D to C+).
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audubon | #251 | B | C+ | D | C | A |
| Oaklyn | #184 | B+ | C | — | C+ | A |
| Mount Ephraim | #358 | C | C | D | B− | B |
| Haddon Township | #279 | B− | D | C− | B | A |
| Westmont | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Haddon Heights | #45 | A | C | — | B | A+ |
| Audubon Park | — | — | B+ | — | C | A− |
| Haddonfield | #52 | A | D | B | A | A+ |
Audubon Park has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Oaklyn, Haddon Heights and Audubon Park report no FBI crime data of their own. Westmont isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Audubon with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Audubon grades B overall, better than 58% of U.S. towns and #251 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades A for health, D for safety and C for schools. Safety is its weak spot, with a D.
That is 4.2 years of the area's median household income ($91,289 across the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 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 C+.
4 notable people were born here, including Nelson Vogel Brittin and Merl Reagle.
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