Berkeley Heights, New Providence Ranked Among Best Places To Live In N.J.

BERKELEY HEIGHTS-NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ — Berkeley Heights and New Providence were ranked among the best places to live across New Jersey, according to New Jersey Monthly.

According to the publication, Berkeley Heights was ranked at number 6, which is the highest Union County town on the list. New Providence came in at number 8 out of the 513 best places to live.

The top spot overall in New Jersey went to Ho-Ho-Kus in Bergen County. The survey ranks the 513 towns from top to bottom.

To arrive at these rankings, researchers at Leflein Associates, an independent research firm based in Ringwood, considered five categories to represent the quality of life in New Jersey’s 565 municipalities: home values, property taxes, crime rate, school performance and a lifestyle factor, according to New Jersey Monthly.

Because of a lack of statistically significant data, towns with a population of less than 1,500 were dropped from the survey. (Click here for more information on how New Jersey Monthly calculates its rankings.)

According to New Jersey Monthly, these are the rankings of Union County towns in New Jersey out of 513(CLICK HERE for the full list):

• 6 Berkeley Heights, Union
• 8 New Providence, Union
• 12 Mountainside, Union
• 28 Summit, Union
• 34 Westfield, Union
• 40 Cranford, Union
• 73 Clark, Union
• 87 Fanwood, Union
• 98 Springfield, Union
• 127 Scotch Plains, Union
• 128 Garwood, Union
• 276 Union, Union
• 331 Roselle Park, Union
• 333 Kenilworth, Union
• 409 Elizabeth, Union
• 423 Rahway, Union
• 436 Hillside, Union
• 440 Roselle, Union
• 443 Linden, Union
• 457 Plainfield, Union

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