Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Where it falls short is cost of living — the typical home is worth about $470K, 4.7 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. Incomes is weaker too — the median household income is $49K, and just over two in five residents live below the poverty line. Walkability is its strong suit (A+). The overall grade lands at D, 433rd of 466 in New Jersey. It comes out better than 8% of U.S. towns. Only 10 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score lower on hazard risk. East Newark’s trail network density is 7.0 miles per square mile, above both the New Jersey town median (0.7) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). East Newark's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 98% of U.S. towns.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenStreetMap.
Where East Newark beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Clark Thread Company Historic DistrictWhere East Newark’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 East Newark is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 3%), so the D overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Clark Thread Company Historic District is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 2,500 in 1900, 2,594 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1836 and 5 maps from 1947 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around East Newark. Close and well known come first.
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw11 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw6 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw9 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw11 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw8 mi MuseumNational September 11 Memorial & MuseumMadison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 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 · National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in East Newark, 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 East Newark.
East Newark is healthier than towns with similar incomes and is safe by national standards but not by New Jersey’s; it also carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding).
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 98% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $444 per resident a year; that rating is what its D− for hazard risk is built on.
Households in East Newark have drawn federal disaster aid in 4 declared disasters, most recently in 2021. FEMA puts 85% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding. One claim on flood insurance has been paid out in the town since 2012.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The public schools here belong to the East Newark School District. Its one school is below. The town’s only public school teaches 176 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Newark Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 176 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests
East Newark has 119 jobs for its 994 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
0.8% of working residents work locally in East Newark. This New Jersey town had 119 jobs in 2023, down 79 from 2013. Also worth knowing: the average commute in the town is 34 minutes. Half the trips to work are shorter than 10 miles.
| East Newark | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 41% | 6% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.8% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 5,256 U.S. towns with household incomes like East Newark’s, it is healthier than 67%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
In East Newark, 31% of adults worry about having enough food, and 27% say their health is fair or poor. This New Jersey town beats the New Jersey average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 21. Among adults 18 to 64 in the town, 24% have no health insurance.
| East Newark | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 22% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 11% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 15% | 19% |
| What stands out | East Newark | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.6% | 7.5% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 18.2% | 22.2% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 30.8% | 14.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A winter brings about 28 inches of snow, with January nights at 24° and July afternoons at 87°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
At 16.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 63% of New Jersey’s graded towns.
For East Newark, the violent offense rate is 2 per 1,000 residents. The town’s level of property crime is 8.7 per 1,000 residents.
| East Newark | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 8.7 per 1,000 residents | 7.4 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Walkers can cover 0.7 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. No town among the 437 in New Jersey we compare has a higher trail network density than East Newark. One park or preserve covers 6 acres in the town.
| East Newark | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 7.0 miles per square mile | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1% | 11% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. East Newark Riverfront Park | 0.7 mi | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
126 within 15 miles of the center of East Newark
About 6 of every 100 East Newark residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Borough in Hudson County, New Jersey, US
East Newark is a borough in the western part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, a suburb of Newark, which sits across the Passaic River, is the second-smallest municipality by total area in the state. The Borough of East Newark was established on July 2, 1895, from portions of Kearny lying between the Erie Railroad's Newark Branch right of way and Harrison, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,594, an increase of 188 (+7.8%) from the 2010 census count of 2,406, which in turn reflected an increase of 29 (+1.2%) from the 2,377 counted in the 2000 census.
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3 towns share a border with East Newark.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Newark | #433 | D | D− | B− | C | C |
| Harrison | #357 | C | D− | C | C+ | A− |
| Kearny | #383 | C− | D | — | C | B |
| Newark | #453 | D− | D | C− | D | D |
Kearny reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare East Newark with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
East Newark grades D overall, better than 8% of U.S. towns and #433 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades C for health, B− for safety and C 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 Cornelius Augustine McGlennon and Davey Brown.
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