County · New Jersey

Bergen County, New Jersey

Bergen County, New Jersey has a quality-of-life score of 91 out of 100 (very high), ranking #277 of 3,143 US counties. Within New Jersey it ranks #6 of 21 counties. It ranks best on firearm deaths (low), suicide rate (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), cost of buying a home today (high) and severe housing problems (high).

91Very high

Quality-of-life score: #277 of 3,143 counties
New Jersey: #6 of 21 in NJ
Population: 977,026 (2025)
Land area: 233 mi²
Density: 4,196.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 34003

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

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

Safety98#60/3,096
Economy93#233/3,143
Housing3#3,059/3,140
Health100#8/3,144
Healthcare99#36/3,143
Environment22#2,420/3,108
Education99#26/3,144
Infrastructure96#138/3,144
Community81#587/3,144
Leisure & amenities91#298/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bergen County, New Jersey ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Firearm deaths · low1.5 /100k
100/100New Jersey 4.0 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional data
Suicide rate · low5.3 /100k
100/100New Jersey 8.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional data
Homicide rate · low1.0 /100k
100/100New Jersey 2.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional data
Premature death · low3,958 /100k
100/100New Jersey 6,017 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Depression · low14.6%
100/100New Jersey 15.6%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Public transit commuters · high10.4%
99/100New Jersey 8.1%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high1.89%
2/100New Jersey 1.88%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Cost of buying a home today · high51.7%
3/100New Jersey 44.9%United States 34.1%Aug 2026Zillow Research
Severe housing problems · high20.1%
5/100New Jersey 19.8%United States 16.8%2017-2021University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Home price to income ratio · high5.0×
9/100New Jersey 4.4×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Average commute time · high31.2 min
9/100New Jersey 30.5 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Time spent in the emergency room · high190 min
14/100New Jersey 185 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Trends

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

Drought exposureWorsening
0% (2021) → 53% (Oct 2025–Sep 2026)
+53 pts5 yearsUS 40% → 43%
High ozone daysImproving
5 days (2017) → 0 days (2022)
−100%5 yearsUS 9 days → 7 days
Cost of buying a home todayWorsening
37.9% (Dec 2021) → 51.7% (Aug 2026)
+14 pts5 yearsUS 26.4% → 34.1%
Drug overdose deathsImproving
19.8 /100k (2021) → 8.0 /100k (Mar 2025–Feb 2026)
−60%5 yearsUS 30.8 /100k → 18.4 /100k
Voter turnoutWorsening
77.8% (2020) → 69.3% (2024)
−8.5 pts4 yearsUS 68.5% → 65.2%
Homicide rateImproving
1.6 /100k (2021) → 1.0 /100k (May 2025–Apr 2026)
−38%5 yearsUS 7.8 /100k → 4.8 /100k

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.

Over about five years, Bergen County, New Jersey improved on 10 of 33 measures with a comparison and declined on 6. 14 moved within the margin of error and 3 barely changed.

Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among counties: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts. Periods differ by measure (most compare 2020 with 2025); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved10

Unemployment−4.9 points9.2% → 4.3%
Commute−2.0 min33.1 min → 31.2 min
Overdose deaths−57%18.6 /100k → 8.0 /100k
Bachelor's++3.8 points49.3% → 53.1%
Uninsured−0.8 points8.4% → 7.6%

Declined6

Transit use−5.4 points15.7% → 10.4%
Property crime+13%771 /100k → 869 /100k
Violent crime+21%61 /100k → 74 /100k
Rent / income+1.3 points29.2% → 30.5%
Rent burden+2.8 points48.0% → 50.8%

All 33 measures

Change of every measure of Bergen County, New Jersey between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	4.6 /10k2020	4.9 /10k2025	+7.5%	Within the margin of error	55%
Average commute time	33.1 min2015-2019	31.2 min2020-2024	−2.0 min	Improved	89%
Average weekly wage	$1,4122020	$1,6042025	+14%	Improved	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	49.3%2015-2019	53.1%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Improved	69%
Broadband subscriptions	89.7%2015-2019	94.8%2020-2024	+5.1 points	Improved	11%
Child poverty rate	5.8%2019	7.3%2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Distance to an airport	13 mi2020	13 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Drug overdose deaths	18.6 /100k2020	8.0 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−57%	Improved	83%
Effective property tax rate	2.04%2015-2019	1.89%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Little change	61%
Firearm deaths	2.1 /100k2020	1.5 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−29%	Within the margin of error	87%
Grocery stores	2.5 /10k2020	2.3 /10k2025	−6.9%	Within the margin of error	32%
Gyms and fitness centers	2.2 /10k2020	2.2 /10k2025	+0.9%	Within the margin of error	51%
High school diploma or higher	92.5%2015-2019	92.9%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Home price to income ratio	4.6×2015-2019	5.0×2020-2024	+0.3×	Declined	55%
Homicide rate	1.2 /100k2020	1.0 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−17%	Within the margin of error	37%
Income adjusted for local prices	$75,6062019	$94,3572024	+25%	Improved	12%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4762015-2019	0.4732020-2024	−0.003	Within the margin of error	61%
Median household income	$107,9712019	$121,8942024	+13%	Improved	5%
New business applications	16.3 /1k2020	19.2 /1k2025	+18%	Improved	20%
Pharmacies	2.7 /10k2020	2.5 /10k2025	−9.1%	Within the margin of error	42%
Poverty rate	5.7%2019	6.7%2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Property crime rate	771 /100k2020	869 /100k2025	+13%	Declined	7%
Public libraries	0.7 /10k2019	0.6 /10k2024	−4.2%	Within the margin of error	28%
Public transit commuters	15.7%2015-2019	10.4%2020-2024	−5.4 points	Declined	3%
Rent as share of income	29.2%2015-2019	30.5%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Declined	35%
Rent-burdened households	48.0%2015-2019	50.8%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Declined	37%
Restaurants and bars	10.6 /10k2020	10.9 /10k2025	+2.8%	Within the margin of error	57%
Students per teacher	12.0×2019	11.4×2024	−0.6×	Little change	46%
Suicide rate	6.7 /100k2020	5.3 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−21%	Within the margin of error	86%
Traffic deaths	3.6 /100k2015-2019	4.2 /100k2020-2024	+18%	Within the margin of error	34%
Unemployment rate	9.2%2020	4.3%2025	−4.9 points	Improved	93%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.4%2019	7.6%2024	−0.8 points	Improved	45%
Violent crime rate	61 /100k2020	74 /100k2025	+21%	Declined	18%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 2303 counties that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts; Local Area Unemployment Statistics; Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Small Area Health Insurance Estimates; Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates; Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master files; Public Libraries Survey; Common Core of Data; Fatality Analysis Reporting System; Distance to airports and intercity rail. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 3144 counties that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Counties like Bergen County, New Jersey five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bergen County, 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.

For comparison, Bergen County, New Jersey itself moved +0.4 points in standing on average over the same 32 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

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

962,316 residents

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

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 60–69 men (+0.5 points).

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

Race and Hispanic origin

962,316 residents

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

White51%493,959
Black5.4%51,787
Hispanic or Latino23%218,856
Asian17%161,731
American Indian and Alaska Native0.1%†595
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0.0%†186
Other or two or more races3.7%35,202

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: White (−5.2 points).

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

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American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B03002View table on data.census.gov

Education

684,999 residents (±77)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

No high school diploma7.1%48,598
High school or GED20%137,152
Some college13%88,803
Associate degree6.8%46,461
Bachelor's degree32%216,418
Graduate degree22%147,567

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Graduate degree (+2.7 points).

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American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B15003View table on data.census.gov

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.

Household income

355,127 households (±1,060)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under $25k9.1%32,189
$25k–50k11%37,331
$50k–75k11%39,262
$75k–100k10%36,019
$100k–150k18%62,201
$150k–200k13%45,029
$200k or more29%103,096

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $200k or more (+9.4 points).

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American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

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

Homes

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

Owners and renters

355,127 households (±1,060)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Own65%232,025
Rent35%123,102

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

119,185 households (±2,551)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under $7505.3%6,262
$750–1,0002.1%2,451
$1,000–1,50016%19,028

Home values

232,025 homes (±2,535)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under $150k3.8%8,748
$150k–250k2.9%6,694
$250k–400k10%24,112

Age of homes

369,613 homes (±176)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

2010 or later6.7%24,727
2000–20096.0%22,002
1980–199914%49,951

Size of homes

369,613 homes (±176)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Studio3.1%11,399
1 bedroom16%57,558
2 bedrooms23%85,501

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

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

487,054 workers (±3,358)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Drive alone59%287,275
Carpool7.3%35,719
Public transit10%50,519
Walk2.5%12,284
Bike0.3%†1,545
Work from home19%90,241
Other1.9%9,471

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+13.8 points).

† 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

396,813 workers (±3,541)

Bergen County, New Jersey
New Jersey share

Under 15 min22%87,298
15–29 min31%124,454
30–44 min21%81,510

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.

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

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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $182.4M on contracts performed in Bergen County, New Jersey: $187 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $182.4M; −33% vs FY2025
Per resident: $187; US $1,995
Sole-source: 35%; US 30%
Single offer: 8.8%; US 8.8%

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$119.4M65%
National Institutes of Health$15M8.2%
Department of the Army$10.8M5.9%
Department of Veterans Affairs$8.3M4.5%
Department of the Navy$7.1M3.9%
Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$5.6M3.1%
Federal Aviation Administration$2.4M1.3%
Defense Health Agency$2.2M1.2%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

169.7MFY2017
168.7MFY2018
268.9MFY2019
184MFY2020
171MFY2021
192.3MFY2022
191.8MFY2023
187.7M

Top industries (NAICS)

Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers · 4234$49.1M27%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$23.9M13%
Basic chemical manufacturing · 3251$21.8M12%
Scientific research and development services · 5417$17.5M9.6%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$13.6M7.5%
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing · 3241

Largest awards

SCREENING OF INVESTIGATIONAL AGENTS THROUGH THE NINDS PRECLINICAL SCREENING PLATFORM FOR PAIN (PSPP)$36M
PSYCHOGENICS INC.· Bergen County, NJ· Research & development· Sep 6, 2024 – May 27, 2026· 75N95024F00001
MAYWOOD SUPERFUND SITE - SEED TASK ORDER$31.8M
HGL-APTIM TECHNOLOGIES JV LLC· Bergen County, NJ· Facilities & utilities· Feb 20, 2025 – Feb 27, 2026· W912DQ25F3014
ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR PROPERTY INVESTIGATIONS AND REMEDIAL DESIGNS FOR WELSBACH/GENERAL GAS MANTLE SUPERFUND SITE IN CAMDEN & GLOUSCESTER CITY, NJ$14.8M
ARCADIS U.S., INC.· Bergen County, NJ· Construction & real property· Sep 2, 2021 – Aug 19, 2026· W912DQ21F3052

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Explore contracts in Bergen County, New Jersey

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $6.6B in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Bergen County, New Jersey: $6,714 per resident (US $12,957).

Assistance · FY2026: $6.6B; −14% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6,714; US $12,957
Loan face value: $2.2B; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 0.0%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$3.9B60%
93.770 · Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage$1.4B22%
96.004 · Social Security Survivors Insurance$257.1M3.9%
96.001 · Social Security Disability Insurance$250.1M3.8%
64.109 · Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability$150.2M2.3%
14.871 · Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers$113.5M1.7%
14.195 · Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA)$96.3M1.5%
84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$90.7M1.4%

Top recipients (organizations)

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BERGEN CO$71.4M1.1%
HACKENSACK, NJ
BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$26.2M0.4%
PARAMUS, NJ
SSS EDUCATION INC$20M0.3%
TETERBORO, NJ
GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION, INC.$17.6M0.3%
HACKENSACK, NJ
ENGLEWOOD HOUSING AUTHORITY$13.5M

Organizations only: awards to individuals and county aggregate records count in the totals but are never listed. Grants to state governments recorded at the agency's own address are counted statewide, not in the capital's county.

Top agencies

Social Security Administration$4.5B69%
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$1.4B22%
Department of Health and Human Services
Under Secretary for Benefits/Veterans Benefits Administration$185.5M2.8%
Department of Veterans Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing$116.9M1.8%
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner

Assistance by fiscal year

8.5BFY2021
6.8BFY2022
6.1BFY2023
6.4BFY2024
7.6BFY2025
6.6BFY2026

County aggregates

94%

Share of obligations reported only as county totals of many small awards (for example Social Security or Medicare payments), with no recipient named.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Explore grants in Bergen County, New Jersey

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

How Bergen County, New Jersey compares: the federal money it received per resident, and how jobs, income, housing and other outcomes moved, each next to the United States.

Money per resident

By federal fiscal year (October to September, named by the year it ends), obligations per resident. A year with no record counts as $0.

Bergen County, New Jersey
United States
partial year

Federal contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Bergen County, New Jersey and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
FY2017	$182	$1,436
FY2018	$181	$1,552
FY2019	$288	$1,654
FY2020	$193	$1,880
FY2021	$179	$1,810
FY2022	$201	$1,917
FY2023	$199	$2,079
FY2024	$193	$2,047
FY2025	$278	$2,165
FY2026	$187 (partial year)	$1,912
FY2027	$0 (partial year)	—

Construction contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Bergen County, New Jersey and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
FY2017	$6.47	$93.28
FY2018	$5.13	$105
FY2019	$85.14	$128
FY2020	$9.01	$145
FY2021	$13.17	$117

Contracts and grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Bergen County, New Jersey and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
FY2021	$480	$5,748
FY2022	$338	$5,221
FY2023	$344	$5,364
FY2024	$319	$5,501
FY2025	$720	$5,732
FY2026	$248

Transportation grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Bergen County, New Jersey and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
FY2021	$71.97	$298
FY2022	$87.58	$357
FY2023	$46.09	$301
FY2024	$45.83	$319
FY2025	$353	$360
FY2026	$2.17

Housing assistanceUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Bergen County, New Jersey and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
FY2021	$240	$239
FY2022	$198	$185
FY2023	$248	$229
FY2024	$236	$229
FY2025	$261	$249
FY2026	$225

HHS grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Bergen County, New Jersey and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
FY2021	$29.77	$2,304
FY2022	$21.08	$2,197
FY2023	$23.77	$2,274
FY2024	$22.72	$2,267
FY2025	$31.21	$2,397
FY2026	$33.39

SBA lending volumeUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Bergen County, New Jersey and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
FY2021	$2,030	$1,186
FY2022	$1,018	$465
FY2023	$70.65	$76.52
FY2024	$111	$120
FY2025	$144	$148
FY2026	$110

Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)

How outcomes moved

Calendar years. Charts share the same years as the money above. Levels are shown as percent change since 2016; rates are shown as the rate itself.

Bergen County, New Jersey
United States
Years with money loaded

Job growthpercent

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Job growth, Bergen County, New Jersey and the United States, by year
Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	0.9%	2.0%
2015

When its money jumped

A county-year with at least 10,000 residents whose money per resident is at least twice its earlier average counts as a jump. Each is compared with up to five similar counties in the same region whose money did not jump.

No jump in federal money met the criteria in the years loaded, so there is no comparison for this place.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Business Formation Statistics, Building Permits Survey, Cartographic Boundary Files, Gazetteer and metro delineations, Population Estimates Program, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission), Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System), Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordability. JSON · /api/v1/outcomes/places/34003

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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.

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

House

Senate

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Metro area

The metro or micro area Bergen County belongs to. A county is in at most one.

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ69Central county

Cities and towns in Bergen County

Places whose residents live mostly in Bergen County, largest first.

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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.

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and ViolenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2026-10-01
PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Daily county PM2.5 and ozone (EPA downscaler model)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2022
Care Compare: Hospital General Information and Timely and Effective CareCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services · release 2026-07-22
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master filesFederal Bureau of Investigation · release 2025
National Risk IndexFederal Emergency Management Agency · release v1.20.0
Health Professional Shortage AreasHealth Resources and Services Administration · release 2026-10-06
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
Common Core of DataNational Center for Education Statistics · release 2024
U.S. Drought Monitor county statisticsNational Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA · release 2026-09-29
Fatality Analysis Reporting SystemNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration · release 2024
nClimGrid-Daily county averagesNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · release 2025
Regional Economic AccountsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · release 2024
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
Quarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2026 Q1
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Business Formation StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-10-01
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
Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorU.S. Department of Energy · release 2026-10
Election Administration and Voting SurveyU.S. Election Assistance Commission · release 2024
Air Quality Index Annual Summary by CountyU.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2025
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement
Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordabilityZillow Research · release 2026-08

JSON · /api/v1/places/34003

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	−2.1%	−4.2%
2015	−0.3%	−1.3%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+1.1%	+3.3%
2018	+3.4%	+6.8%
2019	+5.8%	+10.5%
2020	+15.8%	+19.4%
2021	+19.5%	+26.1%
2022	+21.6%	+30.6%
2023	+24.6%	+35.0%
2024	+27.2%	+41.0%
2025	+31.6%	+46.8%

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	−5.8%	−5.5%
2015	−1.8%	−1.9%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+2.9%	+4.1%
2018	+8.3%	+8.9%
2019	+13.8%	+13.5%
2020	+15.6%	+20.8%
2021	+24.1%	+32.1%
2022	+25.8%	+35.4%
2023	+33.7%	+42.9%
2024	+39.1%	+49.5%

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	3.7/1k	3.3/1k
2015	2.9/1k	3.7/1k
2016	3.4/1k	3.7/1k
2017	3.2/1k	3.9/1k
2018	3.1/1k	4.1/1k
2019	4.2/1k	4.2/1k
2020	3.5/1k	4.4/1k
2021	4.2/1k	5.2/1k
2022	4.1/1k	5.0/1k
2023	3.5/1k	4.5/1k
2024	3.4/1k	4.3/1k
2025	3.0/1k	4.2/1k

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	−5.2% (Dec 2014)	−10.8% (Dec 2014)
2015	−1.9% (Dec 2015)	−5.2% (Dec 2015)
2016	0.0% (Dec 2016)	0.0% (Dec 2016)
2017	+3.8% (Dec 2017)	+6.4% (Dec 2017)
2018	+5.8% (Dec 2018)	+12.6% (Dec 2018)
2019	+7.2% (Dec 2019)	+18.1% (Dec 2019)
2020	+14.5% (Dec 2020)	+29.3% (Dec 2020)
2021	+24.1% (Dec 2021)	+49.8% (Dec 2021)
2022	+29.7% (Dec 2022)	+64.7% (Dec 2022)
2023	+38.3% (Dec 2023)	+69.0% (Dec 2023)
2024	+49.8% (Dec 2024)	+73.4% (Dec 2024)
2025	+56.5% (Dec 2025)	+73.7% (Dec 2025)

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2015	−3.6% (Dec 2015)	−3.3% (Dec 2015)
2016	0.0% (Dec 2016)	0.0% (Dec 2016)
2017	+3.6% (Dec 2017)	+4.4% (Dec 2017)
2018	+6.9% (Dec 2018)	+8.8% (Dec 2018)
2019	+9.7% (Dec 2019)	+13.1% (Dec 2019)
2020	+12.8% (Dec 2020)	+15.2% (Dec 2020)
2021	+21.1% (Dec 2021)	+32.8% (Dec 2021)
2022	+30.8% (Dec 2022)	+42.1% (Dec 2022)
2023	+39.6% (Dec 2023)	+46.3% (Dec 2023)
2024	+44.4% (Dec 2024)	+50.4% (Dec 2024)
2025	+49.8% (Dec 2025)	+53.5% (Dec 2025)

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	5.4%	6.2%
2015	4.6%	5.3%
2016	4.2%	4.9%
2017	3.8%	4.4%
2018	3.3%	3.9%
2019	2.8%	3.7%
2020	9.2%	8.1%
2021	6.2%	5.4%
2022	3.4%	3.7%
2023	3.6%	3.6%
2024	3.8%	4.0%
2025	4.3%	4.3%

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	−9.5%	−6.9%
2015	−5.0%	−3.2%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+0.6%	+4.7%
2018	+7.5%	+7.5%
2019	+15.8%	+14.0%
2020	+14.9%	+16.9%
2021	+12.4%	+21.0%
2022	+22.2%	+29.7%
2023	+24.6%	+34.9%
2024	+30.8%	+41.6%

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	7.6%	15.5%
2015	7.1%	14.7%
2016	6.9%	14.0%
2017	6.6%	13.4%
2018	6.8%	13.1%
2019	5.7%	12.3%
2020	6.4%	11.9%
2021	7.5%	12.8%
2022	7.0%	12.6%
2023	6.6%	12.5%
2024	6.7%	12.1%

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	12.0%	13.5%
2015	9.6%	10.9%
2016	8.5%	10.0%
2017	8.6%	10.2%
2018	8.7%	10.4%
2019	8.4%	10.8%
2020	7.0%	10.4%
2021	7.3%	10.2%
2022	6.8%	9.5%
2023	6.9%	9.5%
2024	7.6%	9.8%

Calendar years	Bergen County, New Jersey	United States
2014	12.8/1k	8.5/1k
2015	13.3/1k	8.7/1k
2016	13.5/1k	9.1/1k
2017	14.5/1k	9.8/1k
2018	15.8/1k	10.7/1k
2019	15.3/1k	10.6/1k
2020	16.3/1k	13.1/1k
2021	19.4/1k	16.2/1k
2022	18.4/1k	15.1/1k
2023	19.2/1k	16.2/1k
2024	18.5/1k	15.4/1k
2025	19.2/1k	16.6/1k

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What changed in five years

Improved10

Declined6

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