Many NJ towns ranked surprisingly high on the coronavirus case list. Here are the latest NJ town-by-town numbers, ranked highest to lowest.

By Tom Davis, Patch Staff  May 11, 2020

NEW JERSEY – Many New Jersey towns rank surprisingly high on New Jersey’s coronavirus case list — and it’s not just the communities that have been at the focal point of the outbreak since it began in March.

Patch put together a list showing all the towns and their latest reported number of coronavirus cases, ranking them based on population. Another list ranks the total cases that Patch compiled on its own, since the state of New Jersey has never provided a list 

The lists show the new coronavirus is not just a North Jersey problem, an urban problem and one that’s primarily a factor in the Garden State’s densely populated areas.

This is a problem that all New Jersey continues to face, even as the overall new daily coronavirus numbers in the state continue to sink. 

Indeed, the per-capita rates in bucolic, middle- to upper-income towns such as Morristown and Deal are among the highest in New Jersey.

The disease is virtually everywhere — 555 of New Jersey’s 565 communities have it — and parts of South Jersey continue to show a faster rate of growth, while the curve in North Jersey – where the disease originally surged – has flattened.

The amount of days it takes for cases to double, for instance, is now much slower in North Jersey now than it is in southern New Jersey

Getting the town-by-town information has been difficult. Patch investigated every county to get the information. If the county didn’t have data, Patch researched every town and obtained the numbers.

Here’s what you should know about how forthcoming — or secretive — many of the towns have been:

• Eighteen of New Jersey’s 21 counties provide maps and lists that show where the cases are.
• Others, such as Union and Hudson counties, leave it up to the towns to report numbers, and many don’t use the most updated systems or technology to release those numbers.
• Atlantic County has relaxed its initial defiance to providing the numbers, but it still delivers them in a unique way via somewhat vaguely worded news releases. Patch attempted to provide the most accurate numbers by simply adding them.
• One Union County town, Winfield, hasn’t released new numbers in more than a week.

Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson even said his region made a conscious decision early on not to provide this information to the media “to help protect our full time, permanent residents from an influx of second homeowners and out-of-towners who could potentially carry the virus from areas of outbreak including New York, North Jersey and the Philadelphia suburbs.”

As of Sunday, only 10 towns had not reported a case. They were:

• Cape May Point
• Elsinboro
• Harvey Cedars
• Mantoloking
• Pine Valley
• Shiloh Township
• Stockton
• Stone Harbor
• Tavistock
• Walpack Township

Here are all the towns ranked from top to bottom, based on the rate of cases per 1,000 people and using the latest numbers, which largely came from Friday and Saturday (the total case list is below):

1. Rockleigh 181.00
2. Woodland Township 111.93
3. Prospect Park 48.80
4. Teterboro 46.73
5. Union City 44.96
6. Deal 44.83
7. Paterson 42.87
8. Passaic 39.54
9. Elizabeth 38.45
10. Perth Amboy 37.66
11. Plainfield 37.36
12. Frelinghuysen 37.36
13. Lopatcong Township 37.16
14. North Bergen 37.15
15. West New York 36.19
16. Paramus 34.19
17. Haledon 33.58
18. Dover 33.50
19. Andover Township 32.52
20. Clifton 29.67
21. Cedar Grove 29.13
22. Freehold 29.02
23. Linden 28.45
24. Hillside 27.86
25. Lincoln Park 27.66
26. Hackensack 27.65
27. Union Township (Union) 27.61
28. Bergenfield 27.29
29. Harrison (Hudson) 26.84
30. Woodland Park 26.74
31. New Brunswick 26.14
32. Kearny 26.05
33. Rochelle Park 26.01
34. Roselle 25.99
35. Secaucus 25.84
36. Englewood 25.73
37. East Orange 25.71
38. Union Township (Hunterdon) 25.70
39. New Milford 25.46
40. Orange 25.37
41. Lodi 25.31
42. Bound Brook 25.27
43. Emerson 25.10
44. Teaneck 24.96
45. Morristown 24.77
46. East Newark 24.77
47. Elmwood Park 24.71
48. Belleville 24.54
49. Carteret 24.53
50. Totowa 24.01
51. Jersey City 23.69
52. Fairview 23.69
53. Dunellen 23.48
54. Moonachie 23.37
55. Garfield 23.05
56. Saddle River 23.04
57. Maywood 22.79
58. Hightstown 22.54
59. Irvington 22.45
60. Wanaque 22.41
61. Newark 22.27
62. Wayne 22.18
63. Bloomingdale 22.09
64. Wharton 22.08
65. West Orange 21.61
66. Trenton 21.17
67. Saddle Brook 20.98
68. Hawthorne 20.96
69. Oradell 20.90
70. South Hackensack 20.75
71. Victory Gardens 20.28
72. Weehawken 20.03
73. North Haledon 19.77
74. Lakewood 19.75
75. Ridgefield Park 19.72
76. Bogota 19.61
77. Rahway 19.51
78. Bloomfield 19.40
79. Roselle Park 19.38
80. Woodcliff Lake 19.26
81. South Toms River 19.21
82. South Plainfield 19.12
83. North Brunswick 18.57
84. Pompton Lakes 18.46
85. Cliffside Park 18.45
86. Upper Pittsgrove Township 18.34
87. Jamesburg 18.16
88. Penns Grove 18.16
89. Matawan 18.13
90. West Caldwell 17.98
91. Eatontown 17.98
92. Woodlynne 17.84
93. Englishtown 17.81
94. East Windsor 17.66
95. Green Brook 17.60
96. Hammonton 17.57
97. Fair Lawn 17.44
98. Cranford 17.38
99. Park Ridge 17.26
100. South Amboy 17.14
101. Little Ferry 16.99
102. Westwood 16.96
103. Mansfield Township (Warren) 16.93
104. Guttenberg 16.79
105. Franklin Township (Somerset) 16.68
106. Woodbridge 16.65
107. Fairfield Township (Essex) 16.53
108. Freehold Township 16.37
109. Oakland 16.37
110. Wyckoff 16.31
111. Lyndhurst 16.30
112. Dumont 16.28
113. Ridgefield 16.09
114. Hasbrouck Heights 16.04
115. North Arlington 16.03
116. Nutley 15.97
117. Kenilworth 15.93
118. Wood-Ridge 15.86
119. Mine Hill 15.73
120. Edison 15.72
121. Woodbine 15.66
122. South River 15.23
123. Absecon 15.20
124. Willingboro 15.15
125. Camden 15.00
126. Burlington Township 14.88
127. Peapack-Gladstone 14.81
128. Middlesex Borough 14.72
129. Carlstadt 14.70
130. Boonton Township 14.62
131. Alpine 14.54
132. Neptune Township 14.46
133. Helmetta 14.45
134. Rockaway Borough 14.37
135. Livingston 14.24
136. Keansburg 14.20
137. Toms River 14.02
138. Sayreville 13.91
139. Berkeley Heights 13.86
140. Bridgeton 13.85
141. West Milford 13.78
142. East Rutherford 13.73
143. White Township 13.73
144. Frankford Township 13.62
145. Monroe Township (Middlesex) 13.54
146. Wallington 13.47
147. Old Bridge Township 13.44
148. Red Bank 13.37
149. Piscataway 13.33
150. Ewing Township 13.17
151. Long Branch 13.10
152. North Plainfield 13.08
153. Manchester 13.05
154. Holmdel 13.03
155. Roseland 12.99
156. Greenwich Township (Warren) 12.97
157. Clark 12.94
158. Franklin Lakes 12.89
159. Hamilton Township (Mercer) 12.82
160. Caldwell 12.80
161. Watchung 12.76
162. Waldwick 12.74
163. Hazlet 12.71
164. Deptford 12.71
165. Brick 12.68
166. Jackson 12.65
167. Hope Township 12.41
168. Cresskill 12.37
169. East Brunswick 12.30
170. Manville 12.25
171. Springfield (Union County) 12.24
172. Hackettstown 12.21
173. Parsippany 12.20
174. Berkeley Township 12.01
175. Boonton 11.92
176. Morris Township 11.88
177. South Bound Brook 11.87
178. Norwood 11.86
179. Shrewsbury Borough 11.74
180. Carneys Point 11.69
181. Chatham Township 11.66
182. Leonia 11.63
183. Midland Park 11.57
184. Belvidere 11.53
185. Mendham Borough 11.53
186. River Edge 11.45
187. Pequannock 11.45
188. Palisades Park 11.43
189. Aberdeen 11.41
190. Fort Lee 11.38
191. East Hanover 11.34
192. Keyport 11.32
193. Pemberton Township 11.20
194. Lakehurst 11.18
195. Fanwood 11.18
196. Lindenwold 11.06
197. Ridgewood 11.04
198. Raritan Borough 11.03
199. Hanover 10.91

Click here to see death totals for all 555 towns reporting plus total cases by town.

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