Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,088, established in 1621. Home to 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
National Park's standout: it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 96% of U.S. towns. Overall it grades C, ranked 348th of 466 in New Jersey. 5% of its land is conserved. Its weakest subject is hazard risk: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 80% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. History is its standout character grade: an A, better than 90% of U.S. towns, with 2 places on the National Register. National Park’s concentration of trails is 1.3 miles per square mile, against 0.7 in New Jersey’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. On cost of living, just 48 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do better. National Park's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 91% of U.S. towns.
Where National Park beats most towns.
Red Bank Battlefield is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier. Its founding year, 1621, is the earliest of any New Jersey town we grade.
Census counts: 325 in 1910, 3,026 in 2020. The archive holds 11 old photos and papers going back to 1766 and 7 maps from 1891 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far National Park is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 96% of comparable towns) to D for hazard risk (better than 14%), so the C overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around National Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw3 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw2 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw6 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw6 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
in town Park & preserveSchuylkill River
Big draw7 mi MuseumEastern State PenitentiaryLincoln Financial Field: The original uploader was Betp at French Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Xfinity Mobile Arena: Jen Smith, CC BY 3.0 · USS New Jersey: Camera Operator: PH3 BRYANT, Public domain · Independence Hall: Mys 721tx, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Schuylkill River: Emy111 at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Eastern State Penitentiary: Davidt8, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in National 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 National Park.
National Park has hotter summers than almost anywhere else in New Jersey, has homes that are cheap against local pay and sends most of its workers to Philadelphia and beyond.
1.8 miles of trail wind through 1 park or preserve. National Park has one park or preserve, 4 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Temple Place Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its one school is below. The National Park Boro School District runs its public schools. Enrollment at the town’s public school: 289 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Park SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 289 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
At 3 years of the Philadelphia metro’s $91K median household income, the typical home (about $276K) costs less against local pay than in 95% of New Jersey towns; that ratio is one input to its C for cost of living.
86% of National Park households live in a home they own, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 77% and U.S. towns at 73%. The town’s going rate for rent comes in at $1,355 a month. Over the 12 months to September 2026, the typical home gained 2.1% in value.
| National Park | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 86% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,355 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Federal aid has come to National Park households in 9 declared disasters; the latest was in 2021. FEMA puts 57% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 19% to coastal flooding. The national flood insurance program has paid 50 claims here since 1978.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
National Park has 244 jobs for its 1,446 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Half the trips to work are shorter than 10 miles. Jobs in National Park grew by 30 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 244. Among 468 New Jersey towns, just 8 have a lower share of working residents who work in town than National Park. In National Park, the typical household income is $83,000.
| National Park | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Work from home | 11% | 17% | 11% |
| Median household income | $83,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
July afternoons average 87.7°, the highest of 941 New Jersey places with climate records; January nights average 26.4°.
About 23 inches of snow falls in a winter. National Park’s midsummer high stands at 88°F.
| National Park | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 88°F | 86°F | 85°F |
| January low | 26°F | 24°F | 22°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Among adults in National Park, 14% worry about having enough food. National Park: 42% of adults sleep under 7 hours.
| National Park | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 36% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 15% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 11% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 32% | 35% |
| What stands out | National Park | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| More smokers | 16.1% | 10.9% |
| More adults with COPD | 7.1% | 5.1% |
| More adults with depression | 20.9% | 15.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
32 within 15 miles of the center of National Park
About 5 of every 100 National Park residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Coastal flooding makes up 19% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
2 places in National Park on the National Register of Historic Places.
Borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, US
National Park is a borough in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 3,026, a decrease of 10 (−0.3%) from the 2010 census count of 3,036, which in turn reflected a decline of 169 (−5.3%) from the 3,205 counted in the 2000 census. Despite its name, National Park is neither a national park nor associated with one. It was developed in 1895 as a religious retreat called National Park on the Delaware by the Methodist Episcopal Church. National Park had the 18th-highest property tax rate in New Jersey in 2020, with an equalized rate of 4.446% compared to 3.212% in the county as a whole and a statewide average of 2.279%.
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3 towns share a border with National Park.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Park | #348 | C | C | — | C | B− |
| West Deptford Township | #270 | B− | C− | B | C+ | B+ |
| Thorofare | — | — | — | — | — | — |
National Park reports no FBI crime data of its own. Thorofare isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare National Park with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
National Park grades C overall, better than 35% of U.S. towns and #348 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades B− for health and C for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
That is 3 years of the area's median household income ($91,289 across the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
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