Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Bogota grades B+ overall, 212th of 466 graded towns in New Jersey. Few places in the country are easier to get around without a car. Residents are healthier than 81% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates and crime is low: it reports less per resident than 81% of U.S. towns. What holds it back is price: the typical home is worth about $621K, 6.3 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. On the outdoors, just 20 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do worse. Bogota’s median rent is $1,941 a month, where New Jersey’s towns sit at $1,778 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. Bogert House is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Bogota beats most towns.
Where Bogota’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 Bogota is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 4%), so the B+ overall blends very different results.
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Census counts: 337 in 1900, 8,778 in 2020. The archive holds 11 old photos and papers going back to 1908 and 3 maps from 1888 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bogota. Close and well known come first.
Big draw7 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw5 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw8 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw7 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw6 mi Stadium & arenaYankee StadiumCentral 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 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bogota, 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 Bogota.
Bogota sends many workers across the state line, reports less crime than Teaneck Township or any other graded neighbor and is healthy by national standards but mid-pack in New Jersey.
Within New Jersey it is less healthy than 58% of the 468 graded towns: New Jersey sets a high bar.
14% of Bogota adults have been diagnosed with depression. Bogota beats the New Jersey average on 6 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 16% of Bogota adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Bogota | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 23% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 36% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Bogota | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.8% | 9.6% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.1% | 7.5% |
| More uninsured adults | 15.5% | 11.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its public schools are run by the Bogota Public School District. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Bogota Jr./Sr. High School, with 475 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lillian M. SteenLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 347 | B− |
| Bogota Jr./Sr. High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 8–12 | Grades 8–12 | 475 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Its A− tops all 3 graded towns on its borders; Teaneck Township (B+) comes closest. At 8.2 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 69% of New Jersey’s graded towns.
The property crime rate in Bogota is 4.2 per 1,000 residents.
| Bogota | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 4.2 per 1,000 residents | 7.5 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.7 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
22% of working residents cross a state line to work. Bogota has 1,067 jobs for its 3,967 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Bogota for work: only 3% work in town. Bogota’s average trip to work is 32 minutes. Jobs based in Bogota grew to 1,067 in 2023, 98 more than in 2013.
| Bogota | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 9% | 17% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 4.6% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $103,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Bogota has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 24° and about 28 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 58% of U.S. communities. Since 1980, 25 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Bogota.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The typical Bogota home is worth about $621,000, up 3.2% in a year, 8% above the New Jersey typical home. 67% of households own their home in Bogota.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
109 within 15 miles of the center of Bogota
About 5 of every 100 Bogota residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, US
Bogota is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 8,778, an increase of 591 (+7.2%) from the 2010 census count of 8,187, which in turn reflected a decline of 62 (−0.8%) from the 8,249 counted in the 2000 census. Bogota was formed on November 14, 1894, from portions of Ridgefield Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day. The borough was formed during the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed during 1894 alone. Portions of Bogota were taken in 1895 to form part of the newly created Township of Teaneck. Bogota was named in honor of …
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3 towns share a border with Bogota.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bogota | #212 | B+ | D− | A− | B− | A− |
| Teaneck Township | #201 | B+ | D | B+ | C+ | A |
| Hackensack | #393 | C− | D− | C | C− | B+ |
| Ridgefield Park | #274 | B− | D | B+ | B− | B+ |
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Bogota grades B+ overall, better than 67% of U.S. towns and #212 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades A− for health, A− for safety and B− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.
2 notable people were born here, including Stanley Foster Reed and Sid Schacht.
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