Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Population 3,422: a town settled in 1891.
A well-rated place to live, with prices to match. Overall, Haworth earns an A+, better than 97% of U.S. towns. In the ranking it comes 23rd of 466 in New Jersey. Its best grade is for health (A+). The trade-off is cost of living — the typical home is worth about $1.2 million, 12.4 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. 73% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more here, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 45% and U.S. towns at 29%. Only 36 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score higher on hazard risk. Only 10 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score higher on incomes.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index.
Where Haworth beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Haworth | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.3% | 14.3% |
Where Haworth’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 Haworth is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D for cost of living (better than 7%), so the A+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 418 in 1900, 3,343 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2008 and 4 maps from 1897 on.
4 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Haworth takes its name from Haworth in West Yorkshire, England, 3,330 miles across the Atlantic.
UKUK editionHaworth, settled in 1891, takes its name from Haworth, a town in West Yorkshire, England.
Named after: each U.S. town’s Wikipedia article. Grades compare each town with towns in its own country, so they aren’t a head-to-head.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Haworth. Close and well known come first.
Big draw13 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw11 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw14 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw13 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw10 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth.
Haworth carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding), has more trail for its size than nearly any town in New Jersey and sends many workers across the state line.
At 12.4 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $1.23M) costs more against local pay than in 95% of New Jersey towns; that ratio is one input to that grade. Home values rose 54% in five years, to about $1.23M, against 35% across New Jersey.
A typical home in Haworth is worth about $1,227,000, up 11.4% in a year, about twice the New Jersey typical home. The town’s rent at the middle of the market stands at $3,501 a month. Also worth knowing: 95% of households own their home locally.
| Haworth | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $3,501 a month | $1,778 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 95% | 77% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its A for schools comes with a D for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $1.23M.
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. The Haworth Public School District runs its public schools. 498 students attend the town’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haworth Public SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 498 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
At 4.7 miles of trail per square mile, it ranks #2 of 350 New Jersey towns.
Across 1 park or preserve: 11 miles of trail. Protected or conserved: 7.9% of the land in Haworth. The town has one park or preserve, 3 acres in all.
| Haworth | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 4.7 miles per square mile | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 7.9% | 11% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. New Street Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its widest gap with New Jersey is food insecurity: 6.3% of its 2,553 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.3% statewide. Against the 520 U.S. towns with household incomes like Haworth’s, it is healthier than 72%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
For adults in Haworth, the share who had a checkup this year is 81%. This New Jersey town does better than the New Jersey average on 18 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 1. Two figures for adults locally: 14% have been diagnosed with depression, 6.8% smoke cigarettes.
| Haworth | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 28% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.8% | 11% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.3% | 12% | 14% |
| What stands out | Haworth | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.3% | 14.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.1% | 11.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.1% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 94% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $249 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
For Haworth, the natural-hazard score from FEMA is 14 of 100. 9 flood insurance claims have been paid here since 1979. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 68% come from inland flooding and 8% from hurricanes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
23% of working residents cross a state line to work. 30.9% of workers work from home, against 16.8% across New Jersey.
Most working residents leave Haworth for work: only 3% work in town. In Haworth, 3.7% of residents live below the poverty line. Jobs based in Haworth grew to 784 in 2023, 116 more than in 2013. The mean commuting time locally is 35 minutes.
| Haworth | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $237,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 3.7% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.1% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 23° and about 33 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts. Haworth's reported crime rate is well below New Jersey's. Its property offense rate stands at 1.7 per 1,000 residents. Violent crime is rare: 1 reported in 2025.
| Haworth | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.7 per 1,000 residents | 7.5 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.3 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
80 within 15 miles of the center of Haworth
About 5 of every 100 Haworth residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
4 places in Haworth on the National Register of Historic Places.
3 notable people were born in Haworth.
Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, US
Haworth (English pronunciation: /ˈhɑːwəɹθ/ ) 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 3,343, a decrease of 39 (−1.2%) from the 2010 census count of 3,382, which in turn reflected a decline of 8 (−0.2%) from the 3,390 counted in the 2000 census. Haworth was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 24, 1904, from portions of both Dumont borough and Harrington Township. The borough was named for the historic village of Haworth, England. In September 2012, Business Insider named Haworth the third-best suburb in America.
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5 towns share a border with Haworth.
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Haworth grades A+ overall, better than 97% of U.S. towns and #23 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades A+ for health 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 Elizabeth Gillies and Ruth Margery Addoms.
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