Best Places07310, NJ Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 07310, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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07310 ranks 894th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and state finances rank lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in 07310

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 07310 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

07310's strengths and weaknesses

#894Best US zip overall
Top 1%Population health
Top 1%Big-city access
Top 1%An educated workforce
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 07310 with other zip codes.

Where 07310 ranks high

  • Health outlookBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • TransitBetter than 99% of zip codes

Where 07310 ranks low

  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than only 2% of zip codes
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 4% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$1,520 a month, better than only 5% of zip codes
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 6% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 07310

A household needs to earn about $225,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 07310 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $172,186, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$225,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$5,245
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $773,433 home
Median rent
$3,311
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,944
Property tax$1,044
Homeowners insurance$258

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 07310's effective rate of 1.62%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 07310

07310 runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
31
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
5%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.0
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1811%
18 to 3449%
35 to 4926%
50 to 6410%
65 and older5%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 07310.


Who works in 07310, and how

Work in 07310 centers on professional & technical and finance & insurance. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
41%
above the national average
Unemployment
1.0%
below the national average
Job growth
+5.5%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical29%
Finance & insurance27%
Education9%
Health care & social8%
Retail trade5%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 9%
  • Work from home 41%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 50%

Life in 07310

07310 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 99% of zip codes. The coast is about 15 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of 07310 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
8,042
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 4586.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 99% of zip codes
Coffee shops
1,095
about 624.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 99% of zip codes
To the coast
15 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 07310, month by month

07310 sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 28. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January43°35°28°
April65°53°44°
July88°78°70°
October69°60°52°

Flying in and out of 07310

Newark Liberty International sits about 7 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 23.5 million passengers in 2025, with 242 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
EWR
Newark Liberty International, about 7 miles
Airport size
Large hub
14th-busiest in the US, 242 nonstop destinations
Average drive
11 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 07310

Schools across 07310 average a B, better than 79% of zip codes.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 07310 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


07310 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 07310 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 07310

Is 07310 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 07310 ranks 894th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on population health, big-city access, and an educated workforce, and lowest on state finances and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 07310 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $773,433. The overall cost of living runs about 62% above the national average. Set against a $172,186 median income, cost of living beats 87% of zip codes.

Is 07310 safe?

07310 is safer than 32% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $267 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 07310. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 07310 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

07310 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 07310: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 07310: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 07310: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 07310: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

07310 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.