New Jersey
New Jersey: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 9,500,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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New Jersey at a glance
Rolled up from the 27 regions inside New Jersey on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population9,267,014
census
Places inside27
13 with a full /local page
Businesses on file49,034
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered132
in the company directory
Who represents them5
places with a /politics page
Property & employers5 · 1
/property and /employers records
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Who leads New Jersey, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
- Mikie Sherrill — Governor (57th) (Democratic) since 2026-01 ↗
Economy & households
- Population
- 9,548,215 persons (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 887,793.1 USD millions (current dollars, BEA GDP by State, all industry total) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 4.2 % (BLS LAUS, seasonally adjusted) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 111,400 USD (current dollars, Census Bureau CPS ASEC 'Income and Poverty in the United States') (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 63.7 % (Census Bureau Housing Vacancies and Homeownership, annual) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 68,340 USD total debt balance per capita (NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax, as reported by NJ State Policy Lab; per person, not per household) (2025-Q3) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey (statewide, all residential) ↗ | 510,000 USD | median sale (year-to-date through March 2026, New Jersey Realtors) | 2026-Q1 |
| New Jersey (statewide, single-family) ↗ | 565,000 USD | median sale (year-to-date through March 2026, New Jersey Realtors) | 2026-Q1 |
| Bergen County (single-family) ↗ | 949,500 USD | median sale (month of July 2026, New Jersey Realtors Local Market Update) | 2026-07 |
| Bergen County (townhouse-condo) ↗ | 540,000 USD | median sale (month of July 2026, New Jersey Realtors Local Market Update) | 2026-07 |
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Largest companies in New Jersey
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick) ↗ | revenue | 94.2 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 42) | 2025 |
| Merck (Rahway) ↗ | revenue | 65 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 66) | 2025 |
| Prudential Financial (Newark) ↗ | revenue | 60.8 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 74) | 2025 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb (Princeton) ↗ | revenue | 48.2 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 96) | 2025 |
| PBF Energy (Parsippany) ↗ | revenue | 29.3 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 150) | 2025 |
| Becton Dickinson (Franklin Lakes) ↗ | revenue | 21.8 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 203) | 2025 |
| Cognizant (Teaneck) ↗ | revenue | 21.1 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 211) | 2025 |
| Automatic Data Processing (Roseland) ↗ | revenue | 20.6 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 213) | 2025 |
| Kenvue (Summit) ↗ | revenue | 15.1 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 295) | 2025 |
| Public Service Enterprise Group (Newark) ↗ | revenue | 12.2 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 355) | 2025 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-01Mikie Sherrill (D) took office on January 20, 2026 as New Jersey's 57th governor. ↗
- 2026-11The lieutenant governor's office is vacant after Dale Caldwell (D) resigned in September 2026. On Nov 6, 2026 the governor's office issued a statement on Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson withdrawing from consideration for the post. ↗
- 2026-06Fifteen New Jersey-headquartered companies made the 2026 Fortune 500, the same number as in 2025 and down from 22 in 2018. ↗
- 2025-11New Jersey's per capita debt balance rose 5.5% year over year to $68,340 in 2025Q3, the largest yearly increase among the states reported. 3.0% of balances were 90+ days late, up from 1.8% a year earlier. ↗
- 2025-07With 9,548,215 residents (2025 estimate), New Jersey ranks 11th in population and 1st in population density among U.S. states (1,291.9 per sq mi). ↗
- 2026-07Bergen County's single-family median sale price reached $949,500 in July 2026, up 8.5% from July 2025. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$101,050
Median rent$1,653/mo
Immigrants23.5%
Renters36.3%
Aged 65+16.8%
Unemployment6.1%
Low income9.8%
Speak a language other than English30.8%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish1,482,123 · 16%
- Other Indo-European languages482,443 · 5.2%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages148,170 · 1.6%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages136,965 · 1.5%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)126,060 · 1.4%
- Other and unspecified languages97,848 · 1.1%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun94,107 · 1%
- Arabic81,357 · 0.9%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)79,291 · 0.9%
- Korean77,563 · 0.8%
- German or other West Germanic languages31,497 · 0.3%
- Vietnamese17,690 · 0.2%
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Largest employers headquartered in New Jersey
Worldwide head offices from the /employers research, ranked by people employed as each company reports it.
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Largest places in New Jersey
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Newark, New Jersey full323,808
- 2.Jersey City, New Jersey full292,449
- 3.Elizabeth, NJ full137,298
- 4.Toms River, New Jersey full95,438
- 5.Trenton, New Jersey full90,871
- 6.Vineland, New Jersey60,780
- 7.Hoboken, NJ60,419
- 8.Teaneck, New Jersey46,030
- 9.Atlantic City, New Jersey full38,486
- 10.Long Branch, New Jersey31,667
- 11.Princeton, New Jersey full30,681
- 12.Secaucus, New Jersey 22,181
- 13.Ocean City, New Jersey full11,260
- 14.East Rutherford, New Jersey 10,022
- 15.Absecon, New Jersey full9,137
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Inside New Jersey
27 regions have New Jersey as their parent.
- Absecon, New Jersey
- Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Beach Haven, New Jersey
- Bedminster, New Jersey
- Camden, New Jersey
- Cape May Court House, New Jersey town
- Cape May, New Jersey
- East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Edison-New Brunswick, NJ town
- Elizabeth, NJ
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Freehold, New Jersey
- Hoboken, NJ
- Jersey City, New Jersey
- Jersey Shore, New Jersey
- Long Branch, New Jersey
- Millville-Vineland, New Jersey
- Newark, New Jersey
- Ocean City, New Jersey
- Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Secaucus, New Jersey
- Teaneck, New Jersey
- Toms River, New Jersey
- Trenton, New Jersey
- Vineland, New Jersey
- Wildwood-Wildwood Crest, New Jersey
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Companies based in New Jersey
5 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 132 across New Jersey and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Association Headquarters | ||
| Garden State National Bank | Finance | 1889 |
| Middlesex Water | Construction | 1897 |
| PixarBio | Biotech | 2014 |
| Yummy Bazaar | Logistics | 1857 |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of New Jersey are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.