Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Wallington's standout: it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 97% of U.S. towns. Overall it grades B−, ranked 297th of 466 in New Jersey. Residents are healthier than 81% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Its weakest subject is hazard risk: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Wallington’s trail density is 1.3 miles per square mile, above both the New Jersey town median (0.7) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). Only 28 of New Jersey’s 527 towns score lower on civic life. The typical home is worth about $672K, 6.8 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income.
Where Wallington beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Wallington’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 Wallington is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 97% of comparable towns) to D for hazard risk (better than 6%), so the B− overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,812 in 1900, 11,868 in 2020. The archive holds 9 old photos and papers going back to 2004 and 8 maps from 1888 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wallington. Close and well known come first.
Big draw3 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw9 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw9 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw9 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaYankee StadiumMetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · 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 · 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 Wallington, 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 Wallington.
Wallington is safe by national standards but not by New Jersey’s and is healthy by national standards but mid-pack in New Jersey; it also carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding).
On this, Wallington is below New Jersey’s towns (11%) and close to U.S. towns (4.3%).
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Samuel Nelkin County Park | 0.7 mi | 19 |
| 2. Liberty Crossing Park | 0.1 mi | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the Wallington Boro School District. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Wallington Junior Senior High School, with 545 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank W. Gavlak Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades 3–6 | Grades 3–6 | 361 | B− |
| Wallington Junior Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 545 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 97% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $460 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on. 638 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 106 properties have flooded more than once.
Since 1984, 638 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Wallington.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Within New Jersey it is less healthy than 59% of the 468 graded towns: New Jersey sets a high bar.
17% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Wallington. Wallington beats the New Jersey average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 39% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Wallington.
| Wallington | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 16% | 23% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 36% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 32% | 33% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 16% |
| What stands out | Wallington | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 9% | 10.9% |
| More adults in frequent mental distress | 16.7% | 14.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most working residents leave Wallington for work: only 4% work in town. 5.5% of Wallington workers work from home. Since 2013, Wallington has lost 310 jobs, to 1,814 in 2023.
| Wallington | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 5.5% | 17% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 6% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $86,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Wallington has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 23° and about 28 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Typical home values rose 11% in the year to September 2026. The median rent in Wallington is $1,625 a month.
| Wallington | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 38% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,625 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Only 37.5% of households own their home, against 63.8% across New Jersey.
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the New Jersey average. 39% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 44% across New Jersey.
| Wallington | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 15% | 18% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 39% | 45% | 29% |
| Median age | 38.7 years | 42 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 20% | 21% | 22% |
48% women, 52% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3 points. Across New Jersey, 50.8% of residents are women.
| Wallington | NJ | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.8% | 11.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 7.8% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.1% | 8.4% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 15.3% | 12.9% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 18.2% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 14.6% | 12.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 10.7% | 13.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 7.9% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.7% | 7.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.5% | 9.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 31.7% | 25.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 14.3% | 15% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 9% | 6.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.9% | 26.1% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.7% | 17.6% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
At 17.8 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 65% of New Jersey’s graded towns.
Wallington’s property crime rate is 12.6 per 1,000 residents.
| Wallington | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 12.6 per 1,000 residents | 7.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.8 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
99 within 15 miles of the center of Wallington
About 8 of every 100 Wallington residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
4 notable people were born in Wallington.
Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, US
Wallington is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 11,868, an increase of 533 (+4.7%) from the 2010 census count of 11,335, which in turn reflected a decline of 248 (−2.1%) from the 11,583 counted in the 2000 census. Wallington was created as a borough on January 2, 1895, based on a referendum held on December 31, 1894, from area taken from Bergen Township and Saddle River Township. The borough was formed during the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through New Jersey, in which 26 boroughs were formed in Bergen County alone in 1894, with Wallington the last of the 26 to be formed by an 1894 refere…
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5 towns share a border with Wallington.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallington | #297 | B− | D | B− | B | A− |
| Garfield | #382 | C− | D− | C+ | C+ | B− |
| Passaic | #457 | D− | C− | D | D | C− |
| East Rutherford | #287 | B− | D− | — | C+ | A |
| Wood-Ridge | #104 | A | D | A | B | A+ |
| South Hackensack Township | #377 | C− | D− | D | B+ | B |
East Rutherford reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Wallington with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Wallington grades B− overall, better than 48% of U.S. towns and #297 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades A− for health, B− for safety and B for schools. Hazard risk 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 Henry Helstoski and Ed Sanicki.
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