Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 9,125, settled in 1879.
Haledon grades C− overall, ranked 406th of 466 in New Jersey, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. It is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 92% of U.S. towns. On the other side, the typical home is worth about $564K, 5.7 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. Only 46 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score lower on hazard risk. Haledon's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 91% of U.S. towns. No town in New Jersey scores lower than Haledon on the outdoors.
Where Haledon beats most towns.
Where Haledon’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 Haledon is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Pietro Botto House is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 2,560 in 1910, 9,052 in 2020. The archive holds 4 old photos and papers going back to 2005 and 8 maps from 1888 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Haledon. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw16 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw16 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw16 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 Haledon, 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 Haledon.
Haledon is healthy by national standards but behind most towns in New Jersey; it also carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding).
Its public schools are run by the Haledon Public School District. Its two schools are below. The largest public high school is Passaic County-Manchester Regional High School, with 803 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haledon Public SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 996 | C |
| Passaic County-Manchester Regional High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 803 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 92% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $339 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
Haledon’s FEMA risk score is 84 of 100, above both the New Jersey town median (52 of 100) and the median of U.S. towns (44 of 100). Since 1984, 23 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Haledon.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most working residents leave Haledon for work: only 3% work in town. 8.3% of Haledon workers work from home, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 17% and U.S. towns at 11%. Jobs based in Haledon grew to 1,364 in 2023, 105 more than in 2013.
| Haledon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 8.3% | 17% | 11% |
| Median household income | $96,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.9% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Haledon has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 22° and about 24 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Haledon's reported crime rate is close to New Jersey's. The property crime rate in Haledon is 13 per 1,000 residents. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts.
| Haledon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 13 per 1,000 residents | 7.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.3 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Within New Jersey it is less healthy than 84% of the 468 graded towns: New Jersey sets a high bar. Against the 9,180 U.S. towns with household incomes like Haledon’s, it is less healthy than 61%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Haledon beats the New Jersey average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 13. 19% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Haledon.
| Haledon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 32% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 11% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 22% | 25% |
| What stands out | Haledon | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.7% | 7.5% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 19.3% | 22.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 18.9% | 11.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
48% of Haledon households own their home. Typical home values rose 4.7% in the year to September 2026. Haledon’s median rent is $1,750 a month.
| Haledon | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 48% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,750 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
47 within 15 miles of the center of Haledon
About 9 of every 100 Haledon residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
2 places in Haledon on the National Register of Historic Places.
Borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, US
Haledon (English pronunciation: /ˈheɪldən/ ) is a borough in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 9,052, an increase of 734 (+8.8%) from the 2010 census count of 8,318, which in turn reflected an increase of 66 (+0.8%) from the 8,252 counted in the 2000 census. Haledon was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 8, 1908, replacing the now-defunct Manchester Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 21, 1908.
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7 towns share a border with Haledon.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haledon | #406 | C− | D | — | D | B |
| Paterson | #460 | D− | C− | D | D | D |
| Wayne Township | #214 | B+ | D− | C+ | B+ | A+ |
| Prospect Park | #438 | D− | D | B | D | C− |
| Preakness | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totowa | #278 | B− | D− | — | C+ | A− |
| North Haledon | #240 | B | D− | — | C+ | A |
| William Paterson University of New Jersey | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Haledon, Totowa and North Haledon report no FBI crime data of their own. Preakness and William Paterson University of New Jersey aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Haledon with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Haledon grades C− overall, better than 16% of U.S. towns and #406 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades B for health and D 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 Evelyn Reed and Bennie Borgmann.
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