{"id":243761,"date":"2026-05-26T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243761\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:07:07","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243761\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New rankings show a sharp divide between cities in New Jersey when it comes to raising a family.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A WalletHub study compared more than 180 cities across 45 factors to identify the best places for families in 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jersey City ranked No. 45 overall out of 182 cities.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city performed especially well in education and child care, placing 11th in the country.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It also ranked 25th in health and safety.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">However, affordability remains a challenge, with Jersey City ranking 148th in that category.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Newark placed near the bottom of the list at No. 177 overall.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city ranked 179th in affordability and 177th in socio-economics.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The study also highlighted fewer playgrounds per capita, placing Newark among the lowest-ranked cities for outdoor recreation access.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The report evaluated factors such as housing costs, school quality, health care and access to recreation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Top-ranked cities nationwide include Fremont, California, Overland Park, Kansas, Irvine, California, Plano, Texas and Columbia, Maryland.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New rankings show a sharp divide between cities in New Jersey when it comes to raising a family.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-243761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}