Best PlacesLower Clinton Hill, Newark, NJ Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Lower Clinton Hill, Newark, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Lower Clinton Hill, Newark ranks 5,516th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods 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 Lower Clinton Hill, Newark

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Lower Clinton Hill, Newark area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Lower Clinton Hill, Newark's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Cell coverage
Top 5%Big-city access
Top 5%Fast internet
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Lower Clinton Hill, Newark with other neighborhoods.

Where Lower Clinton Hill, Newark ranks high

  • Cell coverageBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Big-city accessBetter than 97% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • TransitBetter than 85% of neighborhoods
  • Local economyBetter than 79% of neighborhoods

Where Lower Clinton Hill, Newark ranks low

  • Low property taxBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Nice weatherabout 57 pleasant days a year, better than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods

Who lives in Lower Clinton Hill, Newark

Lower Clinton Hill, Newark runs younger than the country.

Median age
34
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
11%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1830%
18 to 3425%
35 to 4917%
50 to 6417%
65 and older11%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Lower Clinton Hill, Newark.


Who works in Lower Clinton Hill, Newark, and how

Work in Lower Clinton Hill, Newark centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
12%
below the national average
Unemployment
5.0%
about the national average
Job growth
+6.6%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social27%
Education14%
Transportation & warehousing14%
Admin & support services9%
Retail trade8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 52%
  • Work from home 12%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 36%

Life in Lower Clinton Hill, Newark

The coast is about 17 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Lower Clinton Hill, Newark, which the map shows.

To the coast
17 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Lower Clinton Hill, Newark, month by month

Lower Clinton Hill, Newark sees roughly 57 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 26. 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
January45°35°26°
April67°54°44°
July91°80°70°
October71°60°50°

Flying in and out of Lower Clinton Hill, Newark

Newark Liberty International sits about 2 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 2 miles
Airport size
Large hub
14th-busiest in the US, 242 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Lower Clinton Hill, Newark

Schools across Lower Clinton Hill, Newark average a D, better than 10% of neighborhoods.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

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


Lower Clinton Hill, Newark 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 Lower Clinton Hill, Newark against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Lower Clinton Hill, Newark

Is Lower Clinton Hill, Newark a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lower Clinton Hill, Newark ranks 5,516th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on cell coverage, big-city access, and fast internet, 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 Lower Clinton Hill, Newark safe?

Lower Clinton Hill, Newark is safer than 28% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $464 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Lower Clinton Hill, Newark?

July highs average about 91 degrees, and January highs near 45 with lows near 26. That works out to about 57 pleasant days a year, more than 4% of neighborhoods.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lower Clinton Hill, Newark. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lower Clinton Hill, Newark 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.

Lower Clinton Hill, Newark detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Lower Clinton Hill, Newark 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. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.