Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Lodi's standout: it is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns. Overall it grades C+, ranked 313th of 466 in New Jersey. Its weakest subject is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $626K, 6.3 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. 42% of households own their home in Lodi, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 77% and U.S. towns at 73%. Lodi is home to Felician University. Lodi's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 94% of U.S. towns.
Where Lodi beats most towns.
| College | Students |
|---|---|
| Felician University | 2,040 |
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Lodi is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 97% of comparable towns) to D for cost of living (better than 9%), so the C+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 986 in 1880, 26,206 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1999 and 8 maps from 1888 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lodi. Close and well known come first.
Big draw5 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw9 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw9 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw9 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaYankee StadiumMetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Central 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 · 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 Lodi, 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 Lodi.
Lodi is safe by national standards but not by New Jersey’s and is healthy by national standards but behind most towns in New Jersey; it also has a long record of flood insurance claims.
Most working residents leave Lodi for work: only 4% work in town. 15% of residents live below the poverty line in Lodi. Since 2013, Lodi has added 955 jobs, to 5,982 in 2023.
| Lodi | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 6% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 7.8% | 17% | 11% |
| Median household income | $89,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its public schools are run by the Lodi School District. Two of its 9 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 686 | C+ |
| Lodi High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 906 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Lodi has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 23° and about 28 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Within New Jersey it is less healthy than 81% of the 468 graded towns: New Jersey sets a high bar.
Lodi beats the New Jersey average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 13. 17% of Lodi adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Lodi | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 32% | 33% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 16% | 23% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Lodi | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.3% | 7.5% |
| More uninsured adults | 16.9% | 11.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
901 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 145 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 62% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 901 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Lodi.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Typical home values rose 5.8% in the year to September 2026. The median rent in Lodi is $1,714 a month.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Redstone Lane Park | — | 1 |
| 2. George Warchol Community Park | — | 1 |
| 3. Jet Age Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
At 19.5 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 71% of New Jersey’s graded towns.
Lodi’s violent crime rate is 1.9 per 1,000 residents.
| Lodi | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.9 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 11.9 per 1,000 residents | 7.4 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
102 within 15 miles of the center of Lodi
About 6 of every 100 Lodi residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Where Lodi’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
8 notable people were born in Lodi.
Borough in New Jersey, United States
Lodi (English pronunciation: /ˈloʊdaɪ/ ) is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 26,207, an increase of 2,070 (+8.6%) from the 2010 census count of 24,136, which in turn reflected an increase of 165 (+0.7%) from the 23,971 counted in the 2000 census. Lodi owes its name to the Italian city of Lodi, Lombardy. It was incorporated as a borough on December 22, 1894, from portions of the now-defunct municipalities of Lodi Township (now South Hackensack) and Saddle River Township (now Saddle Brook), at the height of Bergen County's "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, based on the results o…
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6 towns share a border with Lodi.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lodi | #313 | C+ | D | B− | B+ | B |
| Garfield | #382 | C− | D− | C+ | C+ | B− |
| Hasbrouck Heights | #63 | A | D | A | B+ | A |
| Saddle Brook Township | #191 | B+ | D | B | B | A |
| Rochelle Park Township | #267 | B− | D− | B− | B− | A |
| South Hackensack Township | #377 | C− | D− | D | B+ | B |
| Hackensack | #393 | C− | D− | C | C− | B+ |
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Lodi grades C+ overall, better than 45% of U.S. towns and #313 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades B for health, B− for safety and B+ 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.
8 notable people were born here, including Glenn Danzig and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein.
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