Gloucester County still leads New Jersey’s 21 counties in population growth, growing by 1.58 percent between 2006 and 2007, nearly seven times the statewide growth rate of 0.23 percent. Somerset (1.09 percent) and Cumberland (0.89 percent) were the second and third fastest-growing counties in the past year, respectively.
Several counties in […]
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Housing Costs, Property Taxes Shift Along with Population
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008New Jersey’s Hidden Economic Strengths
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008New Jersey ranks first in the nation in per-capita sales and receipts for business establishments in the wholesale trade sector. It also ranks first in the warehousing and storage industry, an important support industry to wholesaling.
Per-capita receipts in the transit and ground passenger transportation industry were higher in New Jersey than in any other state, […]
Trash and Landfills-A Smart Land Use?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007New Jersey is currently home to more than 800 active and closed landfills. Together, these landfills cover more than 10,500 acres—an area twice the size of the city of Trenton, and equal to eight months’ worth of new land development for the entire state (using the development rate of approximately 15,000 acres a year between […]
Taxes, Infrastructure Repair, and Lane Use
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007At 10.5 cents per gallon, New Jersey has the third-lowest gasoline tax in the nation; only Alaska and Georgia* are lower. Washington has the highest tax: 36 cents per gallon.
New Jersey’s gasoline tax has not been raised since 1988. If the tax had kept pace with inflation, it would be 16 cents per gallon […]
Updated Census Numbers Deliver Mixed Message to NJ
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007New Jersey has lost its No. 1 status in terms of median household income. The Garden State was the wealthiest in the nation as of the 2000 Census, but Maryland has now surpassed it (and leaped past former No. 2 Connecticut in the process), according to statistics released last week from […]
Transit, Past and Future?
Friday, August 24th, 2007New Jersey has an extensive public transportation network. NJ TRANSIT operates eight commuter rail lines, serving 149 stations; three light rail lines serving 60 stations; and a statewide network of buses. New Jersey also has two separate transit agencies—PATH and PATCO—that provide commuter rail service between Northern Jersey and Manhattan and Southern New Jersey and […]
The Link Between Energy Use and Land Use
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Population density in Hudson County is about 13,000 people per square mile, the highest among New Jersey’s 21 counties and one of the most densely populated counties in the country. At the other end of the spectrum, Hunterdon County’s density is about 300 people per square mile. Union County, which contains […]
Washington Township and Smart Growth
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007The estimated average property tax bill in Washington Township increased by 84 percent between 1998 and 2004. This was the 14th-largest increase among all 566 municipalities in the state, and the biggest increase in Mercer County. (East Windsor Township is second in the county, and 36th statewide, with a 71.6 […]
South Jersey: A New Smart Growth Frontier?
Saturday, April 7th, 2007The fastest-growing county in New Jersey between 2005 and 2006 was Gloucester, with a 1.8 percent rise in population last year, according to estimates recently released by the Census Bureau. (Gloucester is also the fastest-growing county so far in the 2000s.) Somerset and Cumberland counties also posted one-year growth rates above one percent; the statewide […]
COAH Ruling Ignores today’s Affordable Housing Needs
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Affordable housing is disproportionately concentrated in just a few places in New Jersey. According to Department of Community Affairs (DCA) inventory*, more than half of the state’s affordable housing units are located in just 17 municipalities: Newark, Jersey City, Trenton, Atlantic City, Paterson, Camden, Hoboken, East Orange, Elizabeth, West New York, […]
