Best PlacesRoselle Park, NJ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Roselle Park, 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.
Roselle Park ranks 5,540th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on walkability by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Roselle Park
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.
Roselle Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Roselle Park ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 97% of towns
Where Roselle Park ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,432 a month, better than only 5% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 6% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Roselle Park
A household needs to earn about $146,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Roselle Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $112,088, 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 Roselle Park's effective rate of 2.50%, 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 Roselle Park
Roselle Park's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Roselle Park.
Who works in Roselle Park, and how
Work in Roselle Park centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Roselle Park
Roselle Park has more restaurants and bars per resident than 69% of towns. The coast is about 18 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Roselle Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Roselle Park, month by month
Roselle Park sees roughly 77 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 42, with lows near 29. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 42° | 35° | 29° |
| April | 64° | 54° | 46° |
| July | 87° | 78° | 71° |
| October | 68° | 59° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Roselle Park
Newark Liberty International sits about 6 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 23.5 million passengers in 2025, with 242 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Roselle Park
Schools across Roselle Park average a D, better than 10% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Victor Mravlag School No. 21C− · 26% proficient
- Robert Gordon Elementary SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- Sherman Elementary SchoolD+ · 23% proficient
Top middle schools
- Orange Avenue SchoolB+ · 47% proficient
- Roselle Park Middle SchoolD+ · 24% proficient
- Fords Middle SchoolD · 22% proficient
Top high schools
- Cranford High SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
- Woodbridge High SchoolC− · 28% proficient
- Roselle Park High SchoolD · 19% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Roselle Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Roselle 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 Roselle Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Roselle Park
Is Roselle Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Roselle Park ranks 5,540th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on walkability, big-city access, and transit, 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 Roselle Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $454,303. The overall cost of living runs about 13% above the national average. Set against a $112,088 median income, cost of living beats 76% of towns.
Is Roselle Park safe?
Roselle Park is safer than 50% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $212 per resident a year.
Compare Roselle Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Roselle Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Roselle 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.
Roselle Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Roselle Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Roselle Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Roselle Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Roselle Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Roselle Park 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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