Visual story
Visual stories
Where South Jersey
begins.
The Wawa–QuickChek divide, and home values on either side.
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Editor’s picks
Twin towns, different price tags
Similar incomes, homes and commutes. Different home values.
The flood claims calendar
Insured flood claims since 1978, day by day.
Boroughitis
The incorporation history behind New Jersey’s 564 towns.
How long homes sit
How long listings wait for a buyer, by county and month.
Where you can see the stars
Dark skies over homes, and what they cost.
The true monthly cost
Mortgage, taxes, insurance and utilities by town.
Only in New Jersey
The Wawa line
The Wawa–QuickChek divide, and home values on either side.
Boroughitis
The incorporation history behind New Jersey’s 564 towns.
The pizza–bagel line
Bagel shops versus pizzerias, north to south.
Diner capital
Where the diners are, per resident.
The winter-empty Shore
Shore towns with homes kept for the summer.
What’s in a name?
Do “Lake” towns cost more than “Park” towns?
The Starbucks index
What a town’s shops reveal about its home values.
Court, Circle, Lane
What street names reveal about a town’s age and prices.
Hometown famous
Notable people born in each town, relative to its size.
What your money buys
Twin towns, different price tags
Similar incomes, homes and commutes. Different home values.
The true monthly cost
Mortgage, taxes, insurance and utilities by town.
The price ladder
Starter homes, typical values and recent sales on one scale.
Same house, different tax bill
How local tax rates change the yearly bill.
Priciest and cheapest in each county
Each county’s most and least expensive towns and ZIPs.
Income against home value
Home values against household incomes. Find your town.
Who feels housing costs most?
Housing-cost burden across income bands. Explore renters and owners.
What goes with pricier towns
Which town traits go with higher home values?
The mortgage market
Which loans get made, and why applications are denied.
Your town's time machine
When typical home values crossed $500,000 and $1 million.
Is today unusual here?
Today’s prices and incomes against each county’s history.
The feel of a place
The leafy premium
Tree cover around homes, and how it relates to price.
What quiet costs
Transport noise around homes, and the price of quieter towns.
Where you can see the stars
Dark skies over homes, and what they cost.
What a house buys in land
Home values per acre, from city lots to the Pinelands.
What the housing is
The age and mix of each town’s homes.
How big the houses really are
Building footprints, from above.
The long commute premium
Why longer commutes go with pricier towns.
Places in motion
Who’s moving in
Who moves between counties, and what arrivals earn.
Where the workday goes
Where residents work beyond their hometown.
Is New Jersey building?
Homes permitted, completed and demolished by county.
How long homes sit
How long listings wait for a buyer, by county and month.
When the town was built
Each county’s homes by the decade they were built.
Look beneath the surface
Health in context
Health estimates, with their actual geography and uncertainty.
The flood claims calendar
Insured flood claims since 1978, day by day.
Sites and cleanup
What cleanup records say about a place—and what they cannot say about a home.
When the power goes out
Annual outages, with and without major events. Utility records, not town rankings.
Where internet reaches
Fiber and wired offers. Different places, dates and denominators.
Where students go
Public or private: where the children who live here go to school.
Water you can check
Water violations, PFAS results and lead service lines.
Living higher
How high homes sit above sea level, and what they cost.
The hottest counties
Summer days above 90°F, then and now.
Pavement or lawn
Paved ground around homes, and how it relates to price.
How data gets rewritten
When publishers revise their figures, and by how much.
