Pines LakeNJ
A town of 2,882.
Is Pines Lake a good place to live?
Pines Lake’s median household income is $172,000, above both New Jersey’s towns ($113,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000). No town among the 469 in New Jersey we compare has a higher share of households owning their home than Pines Lake. Pines Lake’s trail density is 1.8 miles per square mile, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 0.7 and U.S. towns at 0.4. We don’t grade Pines Lake yet; the figures below are still real.
98% of working residents leave Pines Lake for work
Where Pines Lake’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Central Park and 540 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pines Lake. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw22 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw22 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw32 mi MuseumUnited States Military AcademyPhoto credits
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 · 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 · United States Military Academy: USMA Public Affairs Office, Public domain
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Moving to Pines Lake: who provides what
Pines Lake is unincorporated, so Passaic County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Pines Lake.
Most of Pines Lake’s workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Pines Lake for work: only 2% work in town. The average trip to work in Pines Lake is 33 minutes. Jobs based in Pines Lake fell to 268 in 2023, 77 fewer than in 2013.
| Pines Lake | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.6% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 4.7% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Inland flooding leads a high hazard risk in Pines Lake
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 74% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 13 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Pines Lake.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Pines Lake has four seasons and pleasant summers
Pines Lake has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 21° and about 24 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy Pines Lake is
Pines Lake beats the New Jersey average on 18 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 12% of adults report frequent mental distress in Pines Lake.
| Pines Lake | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 17% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 28% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 36% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 23% |
| What stands out | Pines Lake | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 4.5% | 9.6% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 3.5% | 7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Laurelwood Arboretum | 1.2 mi | 14 |
| 2. Terhune Memorial Park at Sunnybank | 0.3 mi | 10 |
| 3. South Beach | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Pines Lake
Colleges nearby
28 within 15 miles of the center of Pines Lake
About 5 of every 100 Pines Lake residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
About Pines Lake
Populated place in Passaic County, New Jersey, US
Pines Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located on a lake in Wayne, in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 census, Pines Lake had a population of 3,033. Pines Lake was started in the 1920s as a vacation community around a man-made lake approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide. Many of the original homes were modified log cabins. A large number of these log cabins, built of American chestnut in the 1930s, are still occupied as year-round homes. Gradually the neighborhood became approximately 500 high end to moderate suburban homes. It has a grammar school, Pines Lake School and its residents send their.…
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- Area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 230 ft
Pines Lake’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Pines Lake.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pines Lake | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wayne Township | #214 | B+ | D− | C+ | B+ | A+ |
| Pompton Lakes | #129 | A | C− | A | B+ | A |
| Oakland | #26 | A+ | C | A | A− | A+ |
| Franklin Lakes | #21 | A+ | D− | A | A− | A+ |
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Questions about Pines Lake
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Is Pines Lake, NJ a good place to live?
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