Watchung, Green Brook Ranked Among Best Places To Live In N.J.

WATCHUNG-GREEN BROOK, NJ — Watchung and Green Brook were ranked among the best places to live across New Jersey, according to New Jersey Monthly.

According to the publication, Watchung was ranked at number 92 and Green Brook number 100 out of the 513 best places to live. Basking Ridge was the highest rated Somerset County town on the list.

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 Somerset County towns in New Jersey out of 513 (CLICK HERE for the full list):

• 5 Bernards, Somerset
• 35 Montgomery, Somerset
• 37 Bedminster, Somerset
• 42 Bernardsville, Somerset
• 46 Hillsborough, Somerset
• 49 Branchburg, Somerset
• 56 Warren, Somerset
• 57 Peapack and Gladstone, Somerset
• 65 Bridgewater, Somerset
• 92 Watchung, Somerset
• 100 Green Brook, Somerset
• 118 Raritan, Somerset
• 211 Franklin, Somerset
• 229 Somerville, Somerset
• 350 South Bound Brook, Somerset
• 385 North Plainfield, Somerset
• 417 Manville, Somerset
• 452 Bound Brook, Somerset

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