New Jersey Towns With Most, Least Immigrants: Report

How much of a melting pot is New Jersey? Depends where you are. While the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigration nationwide, radio station NJ101.5 recently mapped out the percentages and numbers of immigrants in each New Jersey town, showing that two New Jersey communities don't have anybody who has moved from another country.

That may be surprising to some people, according to the report, because 20 percent of the state's population is immigrant-based.

The map shows the 565 municipalities in the state and, according to U.S. Census estimates, the towns of Pine Valley in Camden County and Walpack in Sussex County don't have any immigrants.

Jersey City, meanwhile, has the largest number of immigrants (104,565), while Palisades Park in Bergen County has the largest percentage (64 percent). Read more here:

The report came just as NJ Spotlight's new data showed that more than 31,000 people from every New Jersey county and more than 90 percent of municipalities have cases pending in immigration court.

NJ Spotlight reported that New Jersey has the fifth-largest immigration court caseload in the nation, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The data also shows that more than three in four counties nationwide have active cases.

In New Jersey, people in every county are in court, with the numbers ranging from 57 in the northernmost Sussex County to 4,950 in urban Essex, according to the report. At least one person in 510 of the state’s municipalities — more than nine of every 10 — have cases pending.

Read more from NJ Spotlight here.

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