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[Conan]

Forbes Most Expensive Zipcodes:

Overall Rank, Zip, Town, County, Median Home Value
15  07620  Alpine  Bergen  NJ  1,790,000 
23  07976  New Vernon  Morris  NJ  1,596,587
35  08738  Mantoloking  Ocean  NJ  1,420,000 
47  08247  Stone Harbor  Cape May  NJ  1,320,050 
66  07078  Short Hills  Essex  NJ  1,200,000 
78  07632  Englewood Cliffs  Bergen  NJ  1,112,500 
92  08202  Avalon  Cape May  NJ  1,055,000 
96  07723  Deal  Monmouth  NJ  1,037,500 
105  07021  Essex Fells  Essex  NJ  999,900 
107  07458  Saddle River  Bergen  NJ  997,000 
111  07417  Franklin Lakes  Bergen  NJ  985,000 
121  07931  Far Hills  Somerset  NJ  967,500 
131  07711  Allenhurst  Monmouth  NJ  940,000 
138  07717  Avon By The Sea  Monmouth  NJ  930,000 
157  08750  Sea Girt  Monmouth  NJ  887,500 
209  07945  Mendham  Morris  NJ  835,000 
217  07046  Mountain Lakes  Morris  NJ  826,250 
260  08243  Sea Isle City  Cape May  NJ  790,000 
266  07677  Woodcliff Lake  Bergen  NJ  786,000 
274  08558  Skillman  Somerset  NJ  780,750 
282  07935  Green Village  Morris  NJ  777,465 
288  07930  Chester  Morris  NJ  775,000 
288  08008  Beach Haven  Ocean  NJ  775,000 
309  07760  Rumson  Monmouth  NJ  760,000 
316  07722  Colts Neck  Monmouth  NJ  757,500 
326  07059  Warren  Somerset  NJ  752,500 
330  08006  Barnegat Light  Ocean  NJ  750,000
342  07641  Haworth  Bergen  NJ  747,500 
344  08212  Cape May Point  Cape May  NJ  745,000 
350  07627  Demarest  Bergen  NJ  742,000 
353  07423  Ho-Ho Kus  Bergen  NJ  740,000 
358  07069  Watchung  Somerset  NJ  738,500 
376  08403  Longport  Atlantic  NJ  725,000 
390  07670  Tenafly  Bergen  NJ  715,000 
405  07043  Montclair  Essex  NJ  700,000 
405  07481  Wyckoff  Bergen  NJ  700,000 
432  07901  Summit  Union  NJ  690,000 
452  07624  Closter  Bergen  NJ  684,000 
470  07450  Ridgewood  Bergen  NJ  675,000 

39 Out of around 500. 8% of the richest towns in the country is pretty good.

[Conan]

Fortune 500 companies based in NJ:

State Rank, Company, National Rank, Revenue, City

1  Johnson & Johnson  32  50,514.0  New Brunswick  
2  Medco Health Solutions  51  37,870.9  Franklin Lakes  
3  Prudential Financial  64  31,708.0  Newark  
4  Honeywell Intl.  71  28,862.0  Morristown  
5  Merck  95  22,011.9  Whitehouse Station  
6  Wyeth  119  18,755.8  Madison  
7  Chubb  156  14,082.3  Warren  
8  Public Service Enterprise Group  178  12,661.0  Newark  
9  Toys "R" Us  208  11,194.0  Wayne  
10  American Standard  230  10,264.4  Piscataway  
11  Schering-Plough  250  9,508.0  Kenilworth  
12  Lucent Technologies  255  9,441.0  Murray Hill  
13  Automatic Data Proc.  271  8,499.1  Roseland  
14  Campbell Soup  302  7,548.0  Camden  
15  Quest Diagnostics  392  5,503.7  Lyndhurst  
16  Becton Dickinson  397  5,464.4  Franklin Lakes  
17  Hovnanian Enterprises  403  5,348.4  Red Bank  
18  Bed Bath & Beyond  419  5,147.7  Union  
19  Avaya  434  4,902.0  Basking Ridge  
20  Engelhard  454  4,618.1  Iselin  
21  Sealed Air  489  4,085.1  Saddle Brook  
22  Pathmark Stores  497  3,980.5  Carteret  
23  Burlington Coat Factory  580  3,211.1  Burlington  
24  New Jersey Resources  592  3,148.3  Wall  
25  Rockwood Holdings  598  3,121.2  Princeton  
26  Cytec Industries  617  2,999.7  West Paterson  
27  NRG Energy  646  2,723.0  Princeton  
28  Exide Technologies  651  2,690.9  Lawrenceville  
29  Linens 'n Things  656  2,649.3  Clifton  
30  IDT  698  2,468.5  Newark  
31  Commerce Bancorp  775  2,108.0  Cherry Hill  
32  C.R. Bard  866  1,771.3  Murray Hill  
33  Church & Dwight  881  1,736.5  Princeton  
34  Selective Insurance Group  898  1,696.8  Branchville  
35  Children's Place  908  1,668.7  Secaucus  
36  Suburban Propane Partners  924  1,620.2  Whippany  
37  Dun & Bradstreet  993  1,443.6  Short Hills 

[Conan]

So, now poor people are bad?

And what kind of name is "Sea Girt"?  And "Ho-Ho-Kus"?  Eww.

I prefer to live in a decent state, with normal names like Sequim and Humptulips, thanks.

We have under-privelaged people too. I am trying to brag about the positives though.

[Conan]

Fortune 500 companies based in NJ:

Soon to be topped by Verizon in Basking Ridge (Bernards Twp.)

Headquarters?

[Conan]

Oh, my mistake, it's the Verizon WIRELESS headquarters, not for the whole corporation.  Oh well, it's still cool.  It's this HUGE complex on the outskirts of town.  There was controversy because previous owners Pfizer and AT&T allowed people to own homes on the edges of the gigantic property but Verizon ordered them off the property.

Yea, family used to work there. Finally they are actually moving in.

[Conan]

We have a higher rich person density.

That's a good thing?

Yes it is because it shows that NJ is a very successful place with high paying jobs.

[Conan]

We have a higher rich person density.

That's a good thing?

Yes it is because it shows that NJ is a very successful place with high paying jobs.

Yeah, what the world needs, more snobs.

Because people who get paid decently are snobs.

[Conan]

We have a higher rich person density.

That's a good thing?

Yes it is because it shows that NJ is a very successful place with high paying jobs.

NYC has the high paying jobs.  NJ benefits from being close to it.

NYC is practically NJ anyway. But we have our own stuff as I listed before.

[Conan]

So, now poor people are bad?

And what kind of name is "Sea Girt"?  And "Ho-Ho-Kus"?  Eww.

I prefer to live in a decent state, with normal names like Sequim and Humptulips, thanks.

Ho-ho-kus is where my dad grew up.  It's really nice there.  Right next to Ridgewood.

I like Basking Ridge and Mantoloking better.

Rin-chan

I have family in HoHoKus. Very nice town and extremely convenient.

[Conan]

What area are you from?

Family all around North Jersey, Bergen and Passaic and Hudson. I live in Sussex County. How about you?

Family in Passaic and Camden, I'm in Somerset.

I have family in Ocean and Somerset.  And, like Fezzy, I live in Somerset.

Rin-chan

Is Somerset considered North Jersey? I'd say it's Central. North Jersey ROCKS!

[Conan]

I'm from Central Islip.

Yeah, the Haptons pretty much are LI's trump card.  Oh, and Fire Island, until it disappears under the waves.

TOWN (ZIP CODE) / MEDIAN HOME PRICE
WATER MILL, N.Y. (11976) / $1.58 million
MANTOLOKING, N.J. (08738) / $1.33 million

No other Hamptons towns even made it close.  You are fast losing your grip on extremely over-priced yet lovely beach getaways.  And I must say, Mantoloking is quite a high-class, up and coming town.  Rin-chan owns a house down there that I went to visit with her, and it was perfect.  I can't imagine the Hamptons being any better.

The Hamptons suck.  My uncle used to live there.  There are only like one or two towns that are kinda nice, but nowhere near Mantoloking.

Oh, and wannt know why Mantoloking is so spiffy?  No school in town.  That makes for less money wasted on taxes.

Rin-chan

The Hamptons are really nice with the beaches, some very immaculate homes right on the water.   Some of the nicest areas on Long Island are along the north shore in Nassau County (known as the "Gold Coast".  Not enough sales data in some of these areas (as many of them are small towns) to make the Forbes Most expesinve List, but the median price in areas like Sands Point, Old Brookville, Matinecock, Muttontown, Centre Island, Locust Valley, etc.  I remember seeing something years ago (97 maybe) that the median home in Matinecock was $1.6 million (and this was BEFORE the real estate boom in which prices here have more than doubled since 2000) Sands Point is just absolutley nuts and the median price has to be in the several million range as well.   Many of these areas were listed as $1 million+ in the 2000 census (the highest that data goes up to.  And as I sid average prices here have more than doubled since then, and that $1 million + in the census, was well over $1million, and that is seven year old data (its absed off 99 figures)

The Hamptons do not suck! They are awesome and beautiful.

[Conan]

Conan, I do where exactly you are, but I'm in southern Bergen and we can already feel the effects of the Democrats trying to make everything rundown crime-ridden Hudson County.  I'd hesitate to vote Menendez unless you want to be killed, literally.  Hell, someone broke my cousin's car window w/a baseball bat last night, stuff like that never happened when the GOP was in control.

When exactly were the Republicans ever in control of anything in that area?  And I don't think Menendez is very closely related to your cousin's car being broken into.  Besides, so what if it got broken into, it's not like everyone you know is having that happen to them every day.  AND I've never really considered southern Bergen one of the nicer areas of New Jersey anyway.

Depends from town to town in south Bergen. North Bergen is all the rich towns. Its still a nice place to live convenience wise and standard of living.

[Conan]

Conan, I do where exactly you are, but I'm in southern Bergen and we can already feel the effects of the Democrats trying to make everything rundown crime-ridden Hudson County.  I'd hesitate to vote Menendez unless you want to be killed, literally.  Hell, someone broke my cousin's car window w/a baseball bat last night, stuff like that never happened when the GOP was in control.

North Bergen is Hudson, and that place scares me to death.  South Bergen county used to be a nice area, but now that the Dems are in control, they weren't before, they are making it more like Hudson County, and crime rates are increasing.  People are coming from North Bergen and Passaic and reaking havoc.  And five windows got smashed in one night, that's pretty bad, the cop said it was kids going crazy before school started.

Maybe it's not the Democrats fault as much as it Guilliani's.  He wiped crime out of the city, but it didn't disappear, it went to the suburbs.

When exactly were the Republicans ever in control of anything in that area?  And I don't think Menendez is very closely related to your cousin's car being broken into.  Besides, so what if it got broken into, it's not like everyone you know is having that happen to them every day.  AND I've never really considered southern Bergen one of the nicer areas of New Jersey anyway.

Depends from town to town in south Bergen. North Bergen is all the rich towns. Its still a nice place to live convenience wise and standard of living.

I agree.

Personally, it's not as nice as Somerset county (only because that's my home ), but I have spent quite a bit of time in parts of Bergen county and it's very nice.  Lots of traffic in places llike Ridgewood, but very nice.

Rin-chan

Bergen is the place to be.

[Conan]

New Jersey is a nice state, end of story.

I can't believe you dug this up. I was looking at it to check something that someone said last year and then all of the sudden i get to the end and you commented on it today. very weird.

[Conan]

What is the point of NJ's existence? Suburbia for one state and extention of countryside for another....might as well be merged into NY and PA.

I for one wouldn't object to a division and annexation of New Jersey by New York and Pennsylvania.

So instead of having 5 dem senators (and eventually 6), you'd rather have only  only 4? If anything PA is the lesser of the 3 states in terms of being worth anything.

[Conan]

What is the point of NJ's existence? Suburbia for one state and extention of countryside for another....might as well be merged into NY and PA.

I for one wouldn't object to a division and annexation of New Jersey by New York and Pennsylvania.

Personally I think that is a pretty good idea. By the way here in Washington everyone seems to think that New Jersey is just an endless expanse of Suberbia, is this true?
Also to make your state better you could just add mountains it worked for us (and not little hills like the Appalachians, but real, meaty mountains like the Rockies, Cascades or Sierra Nevadas)

Yes we are just a continuous piece of suburbia. We do have the pine barrens which is huge and protected though. And there are also plenty of farms such as in the northeast and tons of cornfields throughout the state but according to the US Census, we are a big blob of suburbia.

Some mountains in North Carolina (Appalachian) are pretty huge.

[Conan]

What is the point of NJ's existence? Suburbia for one state and extention of countryside for another....might as well be merged into NY and PA.

I for one wouldn't object to a division and annexation of New Jersey by New York and Pennsylvania.

So instead of having 5 dem senators (and eventually 6), you'd rather have only  only 4? If anything PA is the lesser of the 3 states in terms of being worth anything.

Does everything have to be for partisan advantage?

Personally I think that is a pretty good idea. By the way here in Washington everyone seems to think that New Jersey is just an endless expanse of Suberbia, is this true?

Not really, despite what Conan seems to think, and certainly not suburbia in the type you get on the West Coast consisting entirely of new developments from within the past two decades.

Parts of New Jersey are extremely urban: Hudson County belongs in New York City, and inner (as in, closer to NYC) Essex and Union Counties are also urban. The cities of Clifton, Passaic and Paterson make another urban area in the southern lobe of Passaic County.

Where I live, Bergen County, and in Middlesex, Monmouth and outer Passaic, Union and Essex Counties, the areas are mostly suburban, but old-growth suburban, consisting of houses built mostly in the 1930s and 40s.

Somerset, Sussex and Monmouth Counties are mostly new-growth suburban, consisting of houses built mostly in the 1970s and 80s.

Hunterdon and Warren Counties are mostly rural, though southern Hunterdon County starts to be suburban. Their primary industry is horse ranching.

Along the coast, Monmouth, Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May Counties are solid resort towns the entire length with farms inland (except in Monmouth, which is being absorbed into the NYC metro). Atlantic City is an isolated incident in Atlantic County, and it's really not very big.

Inner Mercer County, aka Trenton, is urban, though it's not a really big city. Outer Mercer County along with Burlington County along the Delaware River is suburban. Inner Camden County is urban around Camden and suburban to rural in the interior. Gloucester County is suburban. Salem and Cumberland Counties are entirely rural and small, poor towns.

Here's a map that approximates what is where in NJ. Red is urban, yellow is suburban, blue is rural, and green is touristy coast.

What part of the US Census classification that all of our counties are at least suburban don't you get. It's not what I seem to think, it's the information out there. I talked about the multiple farms too and didn't need to mention places like Newark, Hudson, and Camden are urban. NJ is just an expanse of suburbia. It doesnt matter when homes were built..suburbia is suburbia.

[Conan]

What part of the US Census classification that all of our counties are at least suburban don't you get. It's not what I seem to think, it's the information out there. I talked about the multiple farms too and didn't need to mention places like Newark, Hudson, and Camden are urban. NJ is just an expanse of suburbia. It doesnt matter when homes were built..suburbia is suburbia.

The definition of suburbia used by the Census bureau is absurdly broad. Have someone from outside New Jersey visit Cumberland County and then have them say with a straight face that Cumberland County is suburban. You won't be able to do it, and the same is true for Warren County, and for Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May Counties away from the coast.

You must not travel out of state much. In the rest of the states, you can see what rural really is.