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Florham Park’s overall grade of A puts it better than 95% of U.S. towns, 43rd of 466 in New Jersey. Its strongest subject is health: CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 98% of the country. Add schools to its strengths — its schools outperform 87% of the state's. What counts against it is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $1.0 million, 10.6 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. The town is home to Saint Elizabeth University. Florham Park’s midpoint rent is $3,109 a month, where New Jersey’s towns sit at $1,778 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. This New Jersey town has 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Little Red Schoolhouse. 70% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more locally, against 45% in New Jersey’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · National Register of Historic Places.
Where Florham Park beats most towns.
Where Florham Park’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 Florham Park is from typical.
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Census counts: 752 in 1900, 12,585 in 2020. The archive holds 4 old photos and papers going back to 1866 and 7 maps from 1888 on.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Florham Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw22 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw22 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw23 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw20 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 Florham Park, 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 Florham Park.
Florham Park draws workers from Parsippany-Troy Hills Township and beyond and has less food insecurity than most of New Jersey, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of New Jersey.
At 10.6 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $1.05M) costs more against local pay than in 91% of New Jersey towns; that ratio is one input to that grade.
Home values are up 10% over the year to September 2026. Homes sold in Florham Park spent a median 21 days on the market. Just over half of the homes sold in Florham Park went for more than their asking price.
| Florham Park | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $3,109 a month | $1,778 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 70% | 77% | 73% |
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
That grade comes with a D− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $1.05M.
Below: Two of its 5 schools, each with why it was picked. The Florham Park School District runs its public schools. Public school enrollment here: 938 students across 3 schools.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgedale Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 321 | A |
| Brooklake SchoolTop results in townGrades 3–5 | Grades 3–5 | 306 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with New Jersey is food insecurity: 7.2% of its 10,365 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.3% statewide.
7.2% of adults worry about having enough food in Florham Park. This New Jersey town beats the New Jersey average on 19 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. In Florham Park, 7.2% of adults smoke cigarettes, and 9.6% report frequent physical distress.
| Florham Park | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 28% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7.2% | 11% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.6% | 12% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 22% | 25% |
| What stands out | Florham Park | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.2% | 14.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6% | 11.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.1% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
25,693 jobs are based in Florham Park, 4.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 19,029 in 2013 to 25,693.
The median household income in Florham Park is $159,000. For most workers, Florham Park is a place to come home to: only 8% work in town. The town had 25,693 jobs in 2023, up 6,664 from 2013. The share of workers in Florham Park who work from home: 31%.
| Florham Park | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 31% | 16% | 11% |
| Median household income | $159,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 8.7% | 6% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Violent crime is rare: 4 reported in 2025, 0.3 per 1,000 residents.
For Florham Park, the property offense rate is 4.8 per 1,000 residents. The town’s level of violent crime is 0.3 per 1,000 residents.
| Florham Park | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.3 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 4.8 per 1,000 residents | 7.5 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
FEMA puts 67% of Florham Park’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 9% to cold waves. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 73% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, Florham Park has seen 4 flood insurance claims paid out.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A winter brings about 24 inches of snow, with January nights at 22° and July afternoons at 86°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest park or preserve is Emmett Park, at 51 acres. 1.8 miles of trail in 7 parks and preserves. The density of trails for Florham Park comes to 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Emmett Park | — | 51 |
| 2. Memorial Park | — | 30 |
| 3. Volunteers Memorial Park | — | 22 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
22 within 15 miles of the center of Florham Park
College town 15 of every 100 Florham Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
3 notable people were born in Florham Park.
Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, US
Florham Park is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 12,585, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 889 (+7.6%) from the 11,696 recorded at the 2010 census, which in turn reflected an increase of 2,839 (+32.1%) from the 8,857 counted in the 2000 census. Florham Park was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 9, 1899, from portions of Chatham Township. In 2012, Forbes.com listed Florham Park as 440th in its listing of "America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes", with a median home price of $675,107. Since 2008, Florham Park has been the main operations headquart…
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5 towns share a border with Florham Park.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florham Park | #43 | A | D− | A | A | A+ |
| Livingston Township | #39 | A+ | D | B+ | A | A+ |
| Madison | #15 | A+ | D− | A+ | A− | A+ |
| Millburn Township | #113 | A | D | B− | A | A+ |
| East Hanover Township | #190 | B+ | D− | B− | A− | A+ |
| Chatham | #27 | A+ | D | A | A | A+ |
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. It grades A+ for health, A for safety and A 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−.
3 notable people were born here, including Mark Guiliana and Spencer Weisz.
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