Census-designated place · Bergen County, New Jersey

Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey

Ramapo College of New Jersey is a census-designated place in Bergen County, New Jersey, part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area. It has 2,018 residents. Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey has a quality-of-life score of 97 out of 100 (very high), ranking #524 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New Jersey it ranks #45 of 552 cities and towns. It ranks best on dentists (high), reading scores (high) and broadband subscriptions (high). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), comfortable days (low) and job growth (low).

97Very high

Quality-of-life score: #524 of 15,651 cities and towns
New Jersey: #45 of 552 in NJ
Population: 2,018 (2020-2024)
Land area: 0 mi²
Density: 4,210.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 3461632

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety98#258/15,637
Economy52#7,575/15,631
Housing—
Health97#537/15,609
Healthcare94#914/15,650
Environment32#10,535/15,453
Education92#1,222/15,649
Infrastructure97#527/15,650
Community89#1,799/15,651
Leisure & amenities90#1,608/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Bergen County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Dentists · high134 /100k
99/100New Jersey 88 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBergen County value
Reading scores · high3.57
99/100New Jersey 3.22United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBergen County value
Broadband subscriptions · high100.0%
99/100New Jersey 92.8%United States 91.0%2017-2021U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Premature death · low3,958 /100k
99/100New Jersey 6,017 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBergen County value
Depression · low14.8%
99/100New Jersey 15.6%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Suicide rate · low5.3 /100k
99/100New Jersey 8.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBergen County value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high8.5%
14/100New Jersey 5.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Comfortable days · low23.6%
15/100New Jersey 24.9%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationBergen County value
Job growth · low-0.9%
29/100New Jersey 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataBergen County value
High school diploma or higher · low100.0%
30/100New Jersey 90.7%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Time spent in the emergency room · high190 min
31/100New Jersey 185 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesBergen County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high10.4%
33/100New Jersey 9.0%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
2,159 (2016-2020) → 2,018 (2020-2024)
−6.5%4 yearsCensus table B01003US 331,578,104 → 340,003,797
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
80.6% (2016-2020) → 40.5% (2020-2024)
−40 pts4 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.9% → 35.7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
6.7% (2016-2020) → 10.4% (2020-2024)
+3.7 pts4 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.4% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateImproving
10.2% (2016-2020) → 8.5% (2020-2024)
−1.6 pts4 yearsCensus table B23025US 8.1% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

There is not enough history to compare Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey over five years.

Cities and towns like Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,018 residents (±87)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79
60–69
50–59
40–49
30–39†
20–29
10–19
Under 10

Share of all residents, each sex

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

2,018 residents (±87)

Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey
New Jersey share

White56%1,133
Black13%†261
Hispanic or Latino17%†350

Education

42 residents (±48)

Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey
New Jersey share

No high school diploma0.0%0
High school or GED0.0%0
Some college50%†21

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

The Census Bureau publishes no detailed tables for Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

The Census Bureau publishes no detailed tables for Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

788 workers (±150)

Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Drive alone57%452
Carpool2.0%†16
Public transit2.4%†19
Walk29%†231
Bike0.0%0
Work from home8.2%†65
Other0.6%†5

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

723 workers (±150)

Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under 15 min60%436
15–29 min27%†196
30–44 min5.1%†37

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Bergen County, the county holding most of Ramapo College of New Jersey's residents.

Bergen County has 31,818 employer establishments, 330 for every 10,000 residents (1.33× the US rate of 248; 1.30× New Jersey's), with 441,870 paid employees at an average annual pay of $74,257. The Census Bureau also counts 120,489 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 31,818; 120,489 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 330; US 248 · New Jersey 253
Paid employees: 441,870
Average annual pay: $74,257; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Bergen County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	3,434	35.6	1.71×More than typical	39,332	$75,459	7,066
Restaurants and other eating places	2,408	25	1.36×More than typical	28,521	$28,410	769
Specialty trade contractors	1,645	17.1	1.10×About typical	12,758	$78,966	4,471
Lessors of real estate	1,389	14.4	1.17×About typical	8,265	$70,444	18,127
Offices of physicians	1,202	12.5	1.93×More than typical	11,165	$125,686	1,583
Personal care services	1,104	11.5	2.40×More than typical	5,653	$28,119	2,466
Full-service restaurants	1,040	10.8	1.40×More than typical	15,013	$32,341	328
Construction of buildings	997	10.3	1.37×More than typical	4,420	$82,982	3,078
Services to buildings and dwellings	966	10	1.49×More than typical	8,260	$42,523	3,811
Limited-service restaurants	943	9.8	1.22×About typical	9,594	$24,438	291
Offices of other health practitioners	907	9.4	1.55×More than typical	4,566	$50,201	3,718
Management, scientific and technical consulting	897	9.3	1.39×More than typical	4,707	$90,044	5,786

Rank places for an industry Open Bergen County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 964,156 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $1M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey: $519 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: $1M; −16% vs FY2025
Per resident: $519; US $2,007
Sole-source: 92%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.1%; US 8.7%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Defense Logistics Agency$926.2K88%
Department of Veterans Affairs$119.5K11%
Department of the Navy$4,0640.4%
United States Mint$4450.0%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

961.9KFY2017
971.5KFY2018
998.2KFY2019
672KFY2020
1.1MFY2021
949.3KFY2022
1.2MFY2023
1M

Top industries (NAICS)

Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers · 4234$924.2K88%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$114.9K11%
Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance · 8112$4,5280.4%
Other general purpose machinery manufacturing · 3339$2,9200.3%
Rubber product manufacturing · 3262$2,4050.2%
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing · 3341

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey, so they do not add up across cities.

Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey's figures are part of those of Bergen County, NJ ($182.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.6% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Ramapo College of New Jersey is mostly in Bergen County.

See federal money in Bergen County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Bergen County91100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ68

Other cities and towns in Bergen County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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