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For most people who can afford it, yes. Upper Pittsgrove Township grades B+ overall, ranked 215th of 466 in New Jersey. Natural-hazard risk is low. What holds it back is price: homes are expensive, about $258K for a typical one and 2.8 times the Philadelphia metro’s $91K median household income. Only 41 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score lower on the outdoors. Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church is on the National Register of Historic Places. Upper Pittsgrove Township is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 78% of U.S. towns.
Where Upper Pittsgrove Township beats most towns.
Pittsgrove Presbyterian ChurchWhere Upper Pittsgrove Township’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 Upper Pittsgrove Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,656 in 1850, 3,432 in 2020. The archive holds 10 old photos and papers going back to 2004 and 5 maps from 1890 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Upper Pittsgrove Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw23 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw26 mi Park & preservePine Barrens
Big draw24 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw25 mi MuseumEastern State PenitentiaryUSS New Jersey: Camera Operator: PH3 BRYANT, Public domain · Lincoln Financial Field: The original uploader was Betp at French Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Xfinity Mobile Arena: Jen Smith, CC BY 3.0 · Pine Barrens: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Independence Hall: Mys 721tx, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eastern State Penitentiary: Davidt8, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Upper Pittsgrove 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Upper Pittsgrove Township.
Upper Pittsgrove Township carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding), has better schools than South Harrison Township or any other neighbor and is healthy by national standards but behind most towns in New Jersey.
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 97% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $413 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Upper Pittsgrove Township’s FEMA risk score is 11 of 100, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 52 of 100 and U.S. towns at 44 of 100. Since 2011, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Upper Pittsgrove Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its B+ is the best School Grade on its borders; South Harrison Township (B−) is next.
Its public schools are run by the UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP School District. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Pittsgrove SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 340 | A− |
| Daretown SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 28 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests
The average commute for its 1,722 working residents takes 24.4 minutes, against 30.5 across New Jersey.
Most working residents leave Upper Pittsgrove Township for work: only 9% work in town. Upper Pittsgrove Township’s average trip to work is 24 minutes, against 30 minutes in New Jersey’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Upper Pittsgrove Township’s median household income is $86,000.
| Upper Pittsgrove Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $86,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8% | 6% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 8.9% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Within New Jersey it is less healthy than 76% of the 468 graded towns: New Jersey sets a high bar.
Upper Pittsgrove Township beats the New Jersey average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 40% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Upper Pittsgrove Township.
| Upper Pittsgrove Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 36% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 32% | 35% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 28% | 35% |
| What stands out | Upper Pittsgrove Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 8.9% | 11.3% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 10.5% | 12.3% |
| More adults with COPD | 6.7% | 5.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Upper Pittsgrove Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 26° and about 12 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
4 within 15 miles of the center of Upper Pittsgrove Township
About 10 of every 100 Upper Pittsgrove Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
Township in Salem County, New Jersey, US
Upper Pittsgrove Township is a township in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 3,432, a decrease of 73 (−2.1%) from the 2010 census count of 3,505, which in turn reflected an increase of 37 (+1.1%) from the 3,468 counted in the 2000 census. Upper Pittsgrove Township was incorporated on March 10, 1846, from portions of Pittsgrove Township. Portions of the township were taken on January 28, 1893, to form Elmer. The township was named for Pittsgrove Township, which in turn was named for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, a supporter of the colonial cause. It is a dry town, where alcohol cannot be sold, as affirmed by…
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6 towns share a border with Upper Pittsgrove Township.
Elk Township next door grades lower for schools (C to Upper Pittsgrove Township’s B+) and higher for cost of living (B− to C−).
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Pittsgrove Township | #215 | B+ | C− | — | B+ | B+ |
| South Harrison Township | #134 | A− | D | A+ | B− | A |
| Elk Township | #194 | B+ | B− | A− | C | A− |
| Pittsgrove Township | #381 | C− | C | — | C | B |
| Elmer | — | — | C− | — | C | A− |
| Pilesgrove Township | #158 | A− | C+ | — | B− | A |
| Franklin Township | #353 | C | C− | B | C− | B |
Elmer has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Upper Pittsgrove Township, Pittsgrove Township, Elmer and Pilesgrove Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Upper Pittsgrove Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Upper Pittsgrove Township grades B+ overall, better than 67% of U.S. towns and #215 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades B+ 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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