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The city, home to 56,633 people, lies in New Jersey.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s strongest is health: residents are healthier than 98% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. The trade-off is cost of living — the typical home is worth about $536K, 5.4 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. It lags on hazard risk as well (C−): FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 70% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Put together, the subjects come to an A overall, better than 87% of U.S. towns. In the ranking it comes 114th of 466 in New Jersey. 23% of the land here is conserved, against 11% in New Jersey’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. The city has 8 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Craftsman Farms and Bowers-Livingston-Osborn House. Parsippany-Troy Hills Township is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · USGS PAD-US · National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Parsippany-Troy Hills Township is from typical.
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Where Parsippany-Troy Hills Township beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 7.3% | 12.3% |
Craftsman Farms is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 6,631 in 1930, 56,162 in 2020. The archive holds 7 maps from 1888 on.
8 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →8 places in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Ordered by what stands out in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township draws workers from Jersey City and beyond, has less housing insecurity than most of New Jersey and is safe by national standards but not by New Jersey’s.
The biggest place to walk is Troy Meadows, 1,898 acres with 4.9 miles of trail. Across 26 parks and preserves: 43 miles of trail. Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s concentration of trails stands at 1.7 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Mountain Way Park | 7.3 mi | 215 |
| 2. Troy Meadows | 4.9 mi | 1,898 |
| 3. Greystone Woods Disc Golf Course | 1.5 mi | 27 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Three of its 18 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed. Public schools: the Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District. The 6 public schools in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township teach 2,294 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklawn Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 925 | A |
| Parsippany Hills High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,035 | A |
| Northvail Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 359 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with New Jersey is housing insecurity: 7.3% of its 20,780 adults worry about keeping their housing, against 12.3% statewide.
In Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, 13% of adults have been diagnosed with depression. 12% of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township adults report frequent mental distress.
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 28% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.4% | 12% | 14% |
| What stands out | Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 7.3% | 12.3% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 4.2% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
53,142 jobs are based in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, 1.9 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in.
Half the trips to work are shorter than 13 miles. The share of workers in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township who do their job from home: 22%. Only just over a tenth of working residents stay in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township for work; the rest commute out. For Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, the mean commuting time is 28 minutes.
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 22% | 16% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 12% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 4.8% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $112,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
At 10.4 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 60% of New Jersey’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 36 reported in 2025, 0.6 per 1,000 residents.
The level of violent crime in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township is 0.6 per 1,000 residents. The property offense rate in the town is 7.4 per 1,000 residents.
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.6 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 7.4 per 1,000 residents | 7.5 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
542 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 50 properties have flooded more than once.
Since 1978, 542 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township. FEMA puts 76% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 8% to cold waves. Federal aid has come to Parsippany-Troy Hills Township households in 10 declared disasters; the latest was in 2021.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Summer afternoons peak near 86° in July, and January nights bottom out around 21°; snowfall runs to about 24 inches a winter. Winters in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township are chilly and summers warm, with plenty of rain.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Parsippany-Troy Hills Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw25 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw24 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw25 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaYankee StadiumMadison 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 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, 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.
23.2% of the town is conserved land, across 26 parks and preserves.
17 within 15 miles of the center of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township
About 5 of every 100 Parsippany-Troy Hills Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
4 notable people were born in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township.
Township in Morris County, New Jersey, US
Parsippany–Troy Hills, commonly known as Parsippany ( par-SIP-ə-nee), is a township in Morris County, in the northern portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States Census, the township's population was 56,162, an increase of 2,924 (+5.5%) from the 2010 census count of 53,238, which in turn had reflected an increase of 2,589 (+5.1%) from the 50,649 counted at the 2000 census. The name Parsippany comes from the Lenape Native American sub-tribe, which comes from the word parsipanong, which means "the place where the river winds through the valley." Parsippany–Troy Hills is the most populous municipality in Morris County. The name Troy Hills was changed from Troy to avoi…
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10 towns share a border with Parsippany-Troy Hills Township.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | #114 | A | D | B+ | A− | A+ |
| Montville Township | #112 | A | D | — | A | A+ |
| Pine Brook | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lake Hiawatha | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| East Hanover Township | #190 | B+ | D− | B− | A− | A+ |
| Boonton | #234 | B | D | B+ | B | A |
| Mountain Lakes | #11 | A+ | C− | — | A | A+ |
| Morris Township | #200 | B+ | D | — | C+ | A+ |
Montville Township, Mountain Lakes and Morris Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Pine Brook and Lake Hiawatha aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Parsippany-Troy Hills Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Parsippany-Troy Hills Township grades A overall, better than 87% of U.S. towns and #114 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades A+ for health, B+ 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.
4 notable people were born here, including Jane Krakowski and Laura Nativo.
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