Best PlacesBrielle, NJ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Brielle, 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.
Brielle ranks 2,563rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and state finances rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Brielle
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.
Brielle's strengths and weaknesses
Where Brielle ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$174,589 median, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 98% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
Where Brielle ranks low
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,493 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 60 pleasant days a year, better than only 8% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Brielle
A household needs to earn about $231,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Brielle home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $174,589, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Brielle's effective rate of 1.30%, 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.
Who lives in Brielle
Brielle runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Brielle.
Who works in Brielle, and how
Work in Brielle centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Brielle
Brielle has more restaurants and bars per resident than 86% of towns. The coast is about 3 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Brielle and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Brielle, month by month
Brielle sees roughly 60 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 34° | 26° |
| April | 64° | 53° | 42° |
| July | 88° | 77° | 68° |
| October | 70° | 59° | 49° |
Flying in and out of Brielle
John F Kennedy International sits about 40 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 31.0 million passengers in 2025, with 249 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Brielle
Schools across Brielle average a B−, better than 56% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Allenwood Elementary SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Old Mill Elementary SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Brielle Elementary SchoolB− · 41% proficient
Top middle schools
- Wall Intermediate SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- Manasquan High SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Point Pleasant Beach High SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
- Point Pleasant Borough High SchoolC+ · 39% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Brielle school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Brielle 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 Brielle against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Brielle
Is Brielle a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Brielle ranks 2,563rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, high incomes, and big-city access, and lowest on state finances and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Brielle expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $826,686. The overall cost of living runs about 40% above the national average. Set against a $174,589 median income, cost of living beats 94% of towns.
Is Brielle safe?
Yes, Brielle is safer than 92% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $122 per resident a year.
Compare Brielle with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Brielle. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Brielle 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.
Brielle detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Brielle: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Brielle: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Brielle: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Brielle: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Brielle detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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