Best PlacesAudubon Park, NJ Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Audubon Park, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Audubon Park ranks 39,811th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cell coverage by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Audubon Park

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Audubon Park 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.

Audubon Park's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Cell coverage
Top 3%Big-city access
Top 3%Biking
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Audubon Park with other towns.

Where Audubon Park ranks high

  • Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
  • Big-city accessBetter than 98% of towns
  • BikingBetter than 98% of towns
  • TransitBetter than 98% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than 96% of towns

Where Audubon Park ranks low

  • Low property taxBetter than only 1% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Local economyBetter than only 2% of towns
  • QuietBetter than only 4% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$1,338 a month, better than only 8% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Audubon Park

A household needs to earn about $37,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Audubon Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $56,619, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$37,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$859
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $112,500 home
Median rent
$979
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$574
Property tax$247
Homeowners insurance$38

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 Audubon Park's effective rate of 2.64%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. 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 Audubon Park

Audubon Park runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
54
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
19%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
1.8
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1812%
18 to 3417%
35 to 4924%
50 to 6427%
65 and older20%

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


Who works in Audubon Park, and how

Work in Audubon Park centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
5%
below the national average
Unemployment
7.3%
above the national average
Job growth
−32.4%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social24%
Retail trade13%
Construction8%
Professional & technical7%
Hospitality & food7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 82%
  • Work from home 5%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 14%

Life in Audubon Park

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Audubon Park.


What the weather is like in Audubon Park, month by month

Audubon Park sees roughly 66 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 27. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January45°36°27°
April68°56°44°
July91°80°71°
October72°61°51°

Flying in and out of Audubon Park

Philadelphia International sits about 8 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 14.8 million passengers in 2025, with 179 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
PHL
Philadelphia International, about 8 miles
Airport size
Large hub
21st-busiest in the US, 179 nonstop destinations
Average drive
12 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Audubon Park

Schools across Audubon Park average a C, better than 35% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

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


Audubon Park 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 Audubon Park against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Audubon Park

Is Audubon Park a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Audubon Park ranks 39,811th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, big-city access, and biking, and lowest on property taxes and state finances. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Audubon Park expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $112,500. The overall cost of living runs about 0% above the national average. Set against a $56,619 median income, cost of living beats 12% of towns.

Is Audubon Park safe?

Audubon Park is safer than 14% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $341 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 Audubon Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Audubon Park 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.

Audubon Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Audubon Park 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.