The 100 Most 'Miserable' Towns In N.J. - Is Your Town Here?

This isn’t a list you’d brag about.

But Roadsnacks website, a data compiler that specializes in creating lists that rate communities on how ”snobby” or “redneck” they are, went there, compiling a list that rates the most “miserable” towns in several states - including New Jersey.
For example:

Roadsnacks.net, which recently provided a list of N.J. Towns with the highest rate of Ashley Madison ”cheaters,” has compiled a list of the most ”miserable” towns using FBI crime data, the U.S. Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sperling’s Best Places and Twitter.

The website also used this criteria:

• Percentage of residents with a college degree
• Average commute times
• Employment rates
• Cost of living
• Crime
• Sunny days
• Percentage of married couples
• Percentage of homeowners

"In order to rank the unhappiest places in New Jersey, we had to determine what criteria makes people happy,” the site says. “It isn’t a stretch to assume that happy people earn great salaries, are relatively stress free, have a stable home life and live where the weather is nice.”

Here is the list

1. Newark
2. Bridgeton
3. Atlantic City
4. East Orange
5. Camden
6. Passaic
7. Trenton
8. Plainfield
9. Perth Amboy
10. Elizabeth
11. Union City
12. West New York
13. Paterson
14. Guttenberg
15. Jersey City
16. Keansburg
17. Lindenwold
18. Long Branch
19. Phillipsburg
20. Asbury Park
21. Garfield
22. Ocean City
23. Harrison
24. New Brunswick
25. Palisades Park
26. Rahway
27. Linden
28. Red Bank
29. Bayonne
30. Avenel (section of Woodbridge)
31. Dover
32. Echelon
33. Millville
34. Ventnor
35. Hackensack
36. Browns Mills
37. Vineland
38. Kearny
39. Clifton
40. Cliffside Park
41. Bellmawr
42. Gloucester City
43. Englewood
44. Woodbury
45. Ridgefield Park
46. Pine Hill
47. Eatontown
48. Pennsville
49. Carteret
50. Hoboken
51. Glassboro
52. Bound_Brook
53. Princeton Meadows
54. South River
55. Morristown
56. Lodi
57. Wallington
58. Collingswood
59. Highland Park
60. Hammonton
61. Freehold
62. Woodland Park
63. Princeton
64. Totowa
65. North Plainfield
66. Moorestown
67. Manville
68. Edgewater
69. Holiday City (Berkeley)
70. Toms River
71. Little Ferry
72. Franklin Park
73. Ridgefield
74. Metuchen
75. Fort Lee
76. Lakewood
77. Westwood
78. Woodbridge
79. Iselin (section of Woodbridge)
80. Upper Montclair
81. Summit
82. Old Bridge
83. Madison
84. Wlmwood Park
85. Cherry Hill (identified as “Cherry Hill Mall”)
86. North Arlington
87. Point Pleasant
88. Williamstown
89. Wanaque
90. Hawthorne
91. Dumont
92. Ocean Acres (section of Barnegat and Stafford townships)
93. Beachwood
94. New Providence
95. Tenafly
96. New Milford
97. Tinton Falls
98. Bergenfield
99. Fair Lawn

100. Pompton Lakes

You can see the list by clicking here.