Roadsnacks.net has compiled a list of the most “miserable” N.J. towns based on crime, number of married couples and ‘sunny days,’ etc.
This isn’t a list you’d brag about.
But Roadsnacks website, a data compiler that specializes in creating lists that rate communities on how ”snobby” or “redneck” they are, went there, compiling a list that rates the most “miserable” towns in several states – including New Jersey.
Roadsnacks.net, which recently provided a list of N.J. Towns with the highest rate of Ashley Madison ”cheaters,” has compiled a list of the most ”miserable” towns using FBI crime data, the U.S. Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sperling’s Best Places and Twitter.
The website also used this criteria:
- Percentage of residents with a college degree
- Average commute times
- Employment rates
- Cost of living
- Crime
- Sunny days
- Percentage of married couples
- Percentage of homeowners
“In order to rank the unhappiest places in New Jersey, we had to determine what criteria makes people happy,” the site says. “It isn’t a stretch to assume that happy people earn great salaries, are relatively stress free, have a stable home life and live where the weather is nice.”
Here is the list
- Newark
- Bridgeton
- Atlantic City
- East Orange
- Camden
- Passaic
- Trenton
- Plainfield
- Perth Amboy
- Elizabeth
- Union City
- West New York
- Paterson
- Guttenberg
- Jersey City
- Keansburg
- Lindenwold
- Long Branch
- Phillipsburg
- Asbury Park
- Garfield
- Ocean City
- Harrison
- New Brunswick
- Palisades Park
- Rahway
- Linden
- Red Bank
- Bayonne
- Avenel (section of Woodbridge)
- Dover
- Echelon
- Millville
- Ventnor
- Hackensack
- Browns Mills
- Vineland
- Kearny
- Clifton
- Cliffside Park
- Bellmawr
- Gloucester City
- Englewood
- Woodbury
- Ridgefield Park
- Pine Hill
- Eatontown
- Pennsville
- Carteret
- Hoboken
- Glassboro
- Bound_Brook
- Princeton Meadows
- South River
- Morristown
- Lodi
- Wallington
- Collingswood
- Highland Park
- Hammonton
- Freehold
- Woodland Park
- Princeton
- Totowa
- North Plainfield
- Moorestown
- Manville
- Edgewater
- Holiday City (Berkeley)
- Toms River
- Little Ferry
- Franklin Park
- Ridgefield
- Metuchen
- Fort Lee
- Lakewood
- Westwood
- Woodbridge
- Iselin (section of Woodbridge)
- Upper Montclair
- Summit
- Old Bridge
- Madison
- Wlmwood Park
- Cherry Hill (identified as “Cherry Hill Mall”)
- North Arlington
- Point Pleasant
- Williamstown
- Wanaque
- Hawthorne
- Dumont
- Ocean Acres (section of Barnegat and Stafford townships)
- Beachwood
- New Providence
- Tenafly
- New Milford
- Tinton Falls
- Bergenfield
- Fair Lawn
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You can see the list by clicking here.
