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Buena Vista Township grades D overall, 415th among New Jersey's 466 graded towns, mostly because of schools. Its public schools trail 86% of New Jersey towns on state tests and graduation. What it does well: it has 29 miles of trail. Buena Vista Township’s average trip to work is 38 minutes, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 30 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Only 51 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score lower on walkability. The typical home is worth about $227K, 2.8 years of the Atlantic City metro’s $82K median household income.
Where Buena Vista Township’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 Buena Vista Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 948 in 1870, a low of 885 in 1880, 7,033 in 2020. The archive holds 4 old photos and papers going back to 2005 and 3 maps from 1890 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Buena Vista Township, 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 Buena Vista Township.
Buena Vista Township is healthy by national standards but behind most towns in New Jersey; it also has lost a quarter or more of its jobs in ten years.
The largest public high school is Buena Regional High School, with 491 students. The Buena Regional School District runs its public schools. Two of its 6 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Regional Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 345 | C− |
| Buena Regional High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 491 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Jobs based here fell from 1,559 in 2013 to 1,141. The average commute for its 2,938 working residents takes 37.8 minutes, against 30.5 across New Jersey.
Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Buena Vista Township dropped by 418, to 1,141. Just 7% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. The top destinations are Vineland (17%), Atlantic City (5%) and Egg Harbor Township (4%). The town’s income of the median household comes in at $88,000.
| Buena Vista Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $88,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 5.8% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The biggest park or preserve is Peaslee Wildlife Management Area, at 262 acres. 4 parks and preserves cover 293 acres in Buena Vista Township. Its density of trails is 0.7 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Peaslee Wildlife Management Area | — | 262 |
| 2. Michael Debbi Park | 0.1 mi | 18 |
| 3. Wilder Hines Park | 0.2 mi | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
In July, afternoons reach 87°; in January, nights fall to 25°, and about 22 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
11 flood insurance claims have been paid in Buena Vista Township since 1978. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 55% of U.S. communities. 29% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by hurricanes at 25%. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Buena Vista Township after 10 declared disasters, most recently in 2020.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Within New Jersey it is less healthy than 86% of the 468 graded towns: New Jersey sets a high bar.
For adults in Buena Vista Township, the share who get no exercise outside work is 28%. 13% of Buena Vista Township adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Buena Vista Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 16% | 23% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 36% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 22% | 25% |
| What stands out | Buena Vista Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 13.8% | 9.6% |
| More adults with COPD | 6.6% | 5.1% |
| More smokers | 13.7% | 10.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Buena Vista Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi Park & preservePine Barrens
Big draw32 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw33 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw35 mi MuseumEastern State PenitentiaryPine Barrens: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · USS 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
2 within 15 miles of the center of Buena Vista Township
About 3 of every 100 Buena Vista Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
Township in Atlantic County, New Jersey, US
Buena Vista Township ( BEW-nə VIST-ə) is a township located in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township, and all of Atlantic County, is part of the Atlantic City-Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which in turn is included in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 7,033, a decrease of 537 (−7.1%) from the 2010 census count of 7,570, which in turn reflected an increase of 134 (+1.8%) from the 7,436 counted in the 2000 census. Buena Vista was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 5, 1867, from portions of Hamilton Township. Portions of the township were taken on Ma…
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7 towns share a border with Buena Vista Township.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Vista Township | #415 | D | C− | — | D | B− |
| Buena | #407 | C− | C− | — | D | B+ |
| Maurice River Township | #462 | D− | C− | — | D | C+ |
| Milmay | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Folsom | — | — | C | — | C+ | B+ |
| Hamilton Township | #419 | D | D | C | D | B+ |
| Newtonville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Richland | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Folsom has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Buena Vista Township, Buena, Maurice River Township and Folsom report no FBI crime data of their own. Milmay, Newtonville and Richland aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Buena Vista Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Buena Vista Township grades D overall, better than 14% of U.S. towns and #415 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades B− for health and D for schools. Schools 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 C−.
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