Where you live
Enter your ZIP code or street address to find your county below and the people who decide this for you, by name. SourceLine does not keep the address.
Ranked from doing best
Every county in New Jersey
| Margin of error | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burlington County | 64.5% | plus or minus 2.2 points | 76.1% |
| 2 | Gloucester County | 58.8% | plus or minus 2.6 points | 80.1% |
| 3 | Somerset County | 56.6% | plus or minus 3.8 points | 74.3% |
| 4 | Ocean County | 53% | plus or minus 5.3 points | 80.7% |
| 5 | Morris County | 47.4% | plus or minus 4.2 points | 74.3% |
| 6 | Camden County | 46.3% | plus or minus 1.8 points | 64.7% |
| 7 | Union County | 46.2% | plus or minus 1.6 points | 57.4% |
| 8 | Bergen County | 44.4% | plus or minus 3.1 points | 65.3% |
| 9 | Monmouth County | 43.7% | plus or minus 2.6 points | 75.6% |
| 10 | Mercer County | 42.6% | plus or minus 2.7 points | 62.2% |
| 11 | Cumberland County | 42.5% | plus or minus 4.1 points | 66.5% |
| 12 | Middlesex County | 42.2% | plus or minus 2.4 points | 63.6% |
| 13 | Atlantic County | 40.6% | plus or minus 3.6 points | 68.7% |
| 14 | Salem County | 32.7% | plus or minus 4.8 points | 71% |
| 15 | Essex County | 29.7% | plus or minus 1.4 points | 44.9% |
| 16 | Passaic County | 27.3% | plus or minus 2.3 points | 53.1% |
| 17 | Hudson County | 22.1% | plus or minus 1.6 points | 30.7% |
| Not ranked | Cape May County | 38.6% Wide margin of error | plus or minus 11.1 points | 80.3% |
| Not ranked | Hunterdon County | Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households | 85.1% | |
| Not ranked | Sussex County | Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households | 83.7% | |
| Not ranked | Warren County | 62.5% Wide margin of error | plus or minus 11 points | 75.1% |
Ranked: the 17 counties measured in survey years 2020 to 2024 with at least 1,000 Black households and with a margin of error of 10 points or less. Places below that line are still listed, with the reason.
Who decides
From you up to Congress. Look up your address above and each step fills in with the people who hold that seat for you.
You and your neighbors Know your rights as a renter or owner, check your property tax assessment, and show up when zoning is decided.
Ask: Is my assessment right, and when is the deadline to appeal it?
Your mayor, council and county commission Decide zoning, property taxes, code enforcement and how local housing money is spent.
Ask: What is being built here, who can afford it, and who decided?
Your state legislators Write landlord and tenant law and decide where the housing tax credit goes.
Ask: Where did our state place its housing tax credits last year?
Your members of Congress Fund rent help, public housing and the housing tax credit.
Ask: How long is the wait for rent help in our county?
What you can do
- This weekLook up your property assessment or reread your lease, and write down any deadline.
- The next date that mattersThe next zoning hearing or property tax appeal deadline in your county.
- Where your voice is countedRaise what matters where you live on SourceLine issues. Only confirmed residents are counted, and SourceLine shares the totals, never names, with the body that decides.
Method and sources
Black households that own their home. Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey, survey years 2020 to 2024.
The margin of error is how far the true figure could be from the one shown. Surveys ask some people, not everyone, so smaller places have wider margins. A place with too few people to measure well is listed but not ranked.
Population, voting age population, citizens of voting age, registered voters and people who voted are different counts. Each page says which one it uses.
Who decides: the people named come from SourceLine’s record of officeholders for the address you enter. Where SourceLine hasn’t updated a level for your area yet, that step says so.