Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Today 2,587 people live in this town, first settled in 1912.
Plenty to like here, at a price. Its best grade is for health (A+). Incomes are another plus: the median household earns $203K. The catch is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $869K, 8.8 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. It also trails on hazard risk (C−) — FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 73% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Put together, the subjects come to an A overall, better than 86% of U.S. towns. In the ranking it comes 128th of 466 in New Jersey. Peapack and Gladstone has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Gladstone Station.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · FEMA National Risk Index · National Register of Historic Places.
Where Peapack and Gladstone beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Peapack and Gladstone | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.4% | 14.3% |
Where Peapack and Gladstone’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 Peapack and Gladstone is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,226 in 1920, 2,558 in 2020. The archive holds 9 old photos and papers going back to 1860 and 6 maps from 1891 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Peapack and Gladstone. Close and well known come first.
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw36 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw35 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw36 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw34 mi MuseumNational September 11 Memorial & MuseumMadison 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 · National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Peapack and Gladstone, 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 Peapack and Gladstone.
Peapack and Gladstone draws workers from Bernards Township and beyond, has less food insecurity than most of New Jersey and has household incomes well above the New Jersey norm.
Its widest gap with New Jersey is food insecurity: 6.4% of its 1,967 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.3% statewide. Against the 1,018 U.S. towns with household incomes like Peapack and Gladstone’s, it is healthier than 77%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Peapack and Gladstone: just over a quarter of adults have obesity, against 28% in New Jersey’s towns and 35% across U.S. towns. Of 32 CDC measures, Peapack and Gladstone beats the New Jersey average on 20 and trails it on 1. The share of adults in Peapack and Gladstone who say their health is fair or poor: 11%.
| Peapack and Gladstone | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7.1% | 11% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 22% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 19% |
| What stands out | Peapack and Gladstone | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.4% | 14.3% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6% | 12.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.1% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
3,280 jobs are based in Peapack and Gladstone, 3 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. 34.6% of workers work from home, against 16.8% across New Jersey.
For most workers, Peapack and Gladstone is a place to come home to: only 9% work in town. The town had 3,280 jobs in 2023, up 520 from 2013. Its mean commuting time stands at 27 minutes. The top destinations are New York (8%), Bernards Township (4%) and Bedminster Township (4%).
| Peapack and Gladstone | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $203,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 1.1% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The biggest place to walk is Natirar Park, 274 acres with 2.3 miles of trail. Trails total 3.7 miles in 2 parks and preserves. Peapack and Gladstone’s density of trails is 0.6 miles per square mile, close to both New Jersey’s towns (0.7) and U.S. towns (0.4).
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Natirar Park | 2.3 mi | 274 |
| 2. Liberty Park | 0.3 mi | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
86% of Peapack and Gladstone’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding. Paid flood insurance claims here since 1984: 12.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 21° and about 30 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
8 within 15 miles of the center of Peapack and Gladstone
About 4 of every 100 Peapack and Gladstone residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
2 places in Peapack and Gladstone on the National Register of Historic Places.
Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, US
Peapack-Gladstone (also written as Peapack and Gladstone) is a borough in the Somerset Hills region of northern Somerset County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,558, a decrease of 24 (−0.9%) from the 2010 census count of 2,582, which in turn reflected an increase of 149 (+6.1%) from the 2,433 counted in the 2000 census. Peapack-Gladstone was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 28, 1912, from portions of Bedminster, subject to the results of a referendum held on April 23, 1912. It is part of the New York metropolitan area, as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-New Jersey-…
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3 towns share a border with Peapack and Gladstone.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peapack and Gladstone | #128 | A | C− | — | B+ | A+ |
| Far Hills | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bernardsville | #41 | A+ | D | A | B+ | A+ |
| Bedminster Township | #76 | A | D | A | A− | A+ |
Peapack and Gladstone reports no FBI crime data of its own. Far Hills isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Peapack and Gladstone with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Peapack and Gladstone grades A overall, better than 86% of U.S. towns and #128 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades A+ for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. 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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