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Cities in New Jersey by adult obesity rate, local model estimate

Bridgeton, NJ had the highest adult obesity rate, local model estimate of 117 cities in 2022, at 43.5%. Palisades Park, NJ had the lowest, at 19.8%. The median was 28.8%. Source: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Highest43.5Bridgeton, NJ
Lowest19.8Palisades Park, NJ
Median28.8117 cities

Top 40 cities, 2022

Bridgeton, NJ: 43.5 %Bridgeton, NJ43.5Camden, NJ: 43.5 %Camden, NJ43.5Trenton, NJ: 42.9 %Trenton, NJ42.9Pleasantville, NJ: 42.6 %Pleasantville, NJ42.6Woodbury, NJ: 40.1 %Woodbury, NJ40.1Atlantic City, NJ: 39.8 %Atlantic City, NJ39.8Lindenwold, NJ: 38.9 %Lindenwold, NJ38.9Burlington, NJ: 38.1 %Burlington, NJ38.1Perth Amboy, NJ: 37.5 %Perth Amboy, NJ37.5Paterson, NJ: 37.3 %Paterson, NJ37.3Union City, NJ: 36.8 %Union City, NJ36.8Asbury Park, NJ: 36.1 %Asbury Park, NJ36.1Millville, NJ: 36 %Millville, NJ36Passaic, NJ: 35.8 %Passaic, NJ35.8North Plainfield, NJ: 35.7 %North Plainfield, NJ35.7Pine Hill, NJ: 35.7 %Pine Hill, NJ35.7Vineland, NJ: 35.7 %Vineland, NJ35.7Dover, NJ: 35.5 %Dover, NJ35.5East Orange, NJ: 35.2 %East Orange, NJ35.2Newark, NJ: 35.1 %Newark, NJ35.1Plainfield, NJ: 35 %Plainfield, NJ35West New York, NJ: 35 %West New York, NJ35Glassboro, NJ: 34.7 %Glassboro, NJ34.7Long Branch, NJ: 34.6 %Long Branch, NJ34.6Guttenberg, NJ: 34.5 %Guttenberg, NJ34.5Freehold, NJ: 34.4 %Freehold, NJ34.4Bound Brook, NJ: 34.1 %Bound Brook, NJ34.1Phillipsburg, NJ: 34 %Phillipsburg, NJ34Somers Point, NJ: 33.6 %Somers Point, NJ33.6Elizabeth, NJ: 33.5 %Elizabeth, NJ33.5Gloucester City, NJ: 33.2 %Gloucester City, NJ33.2Manville, NJ: 33.1 %Manville, NJ33.1New Brunswick, NJ: 33.1 %New Brunswick, NJ33.1Hammonton, NJ: 32.8 %Hammonton, NJ32.8Roselle, NJ: 32.7 %Roselle, NJ32.7Kearny, NJ: 32.5 %Kearny, NJ32.5Fairview, NJ: 32.4 %Fairview, NJ32.4Garfield, NJ: 32.1 %Garfield, NJ32.1Red Bank, NJ: 32.1 %Red Bank, NJ32.1Beachwood, NJ: 32 %Beachwood, NJ32Bridgeton, NJ: 43.5 %Bridgeton, NJ43.5Camden, NJ: 43.5 %Camden, NJ43.5Trenton, NJ: 42.9 %Trenton, NJ42.9Pleasantville, NJ: 42.6 %Pleasantville, NJ42.6Woodbury, NJ: 40.1 %Woodbury, NJ40.1Atlantic City, NJ: 39.8 %Atlantic City, NJ39.8Lindenwold, NJ: 38.9 %Lindenwold, NJ38.9Burlington, NJ: 38.1 %Burlington, NJ38.1Perth Amboy, NJ: 37.5 %Perth Amboy, NJ37.5Paterson, NJ: 37.3 %Paterson, NJ37.3Union City, NJ: 36.8 %Union City, NJ36.8Asbury Park, NJ: 36.1 %Asbury Park, NJ36.1Millville, NJ: 36 %Millville, NJ36Passaic, NJ: 35.8 %Passaic, NJ35.8North Plainfield, NJ: 35.7 %North Plainfield, NJ35.7Pine Hill, NJ: 35.7 %Pine Hill, NJ35.7Vineland, NJ: 35.7 %Vineland, NJ35.7Dover, NJ: 35.5 %Dover, NJ35.5East Orange, NJ: 35.2 %East Orange, NJ35.2Newark, NJ: 35.1 %Newark, NJ35.1Plainfield, NJ: 35 %Plainfield, NJ35West New York, NJ: 35 %West New York, NJ35Glassboro, NJ: 34.7 %Glassboro, NJ34.7Long Branch, NJ: 34.6 %Long Branch, NJ34.6Guttenberg, NJ: 34.5 %Guttenberg, NJ34.5Freehold, NJ: 34.4 %Freehold, NJ34.4Bound Brook, NJ: 34.1 %Bound Brook, NJ34.1Phillipsburg, NJ: 34 %Phillipsburg, NJ34Somers Point, NJ: 33.6 %Somers Point, NJ33.6Elizabeth, NJ: 33.5 %Elizabeth, NJ33.5Gloucester City, NJ: 33.2 %Gloucester City, NJ33.2Manville, NJ: 33.1 %Manville, NJ33.1New Brunswick, NJ: 33.1 %New Brunswick, NJ33.1Hammonton, NJ: 32.8 %Hammonton, NJ32.8Roselle, NJ: 32.7 %Roselle, NJ32.7Kearny, NJ: 32.5 %Kearny, NJ32.5Fairview, NJ: 32.4 %Fairview, NJ32.4Garfield, NJ: 32.1 %Garfield, NJ32.1Red Bank, NJ: 32.1 %Red Bank, NJ32.1Beachwood, NJ: 32 %Beachwood, NJ32
%. Source: CDC, PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data (eav7-hnsx, sd8v-uq83, krqc-563j and later releases), adult obesity rate, crude prevalence. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2022 (%)Change on 2021
1Bridgeton, NJ43.5-1.8 pts
1Camden, NJ43.5+1.7 pts
3Trenton, NJ42.9+9 pts
4Pleasantville, NJ42.6-0.6 pts
5Woodbury, NJ40.1+4.4 pts
6Atlantic City, NJ39.8-2.4 pts
7Lindenwold, NJ38.9+4 pts
8Burlington, NJ38.1+0.9 pts
9Perth Amboy, NJ37.5-1 pts
10Paterson, NJ37.3-0.6 pts
11Union City, NJ36.8+6.3 pts
12Asbury Park, NJ36.1-1.7 pts
13Millville, NJ36-1.2 pts
14Passaic, NJ35.8-0.6 pts
15North Plainfield, NJ35.7+3.2 pts
15Pine Hill, NJ35.7+3.4 pts
15Vineland, NJ35.7-1.8 pts
18Dover, NJ35.5+3.7 pts
19East Orange, NJ35.2-3.9 pts
20Newark, NJ35.1-3.1 pts
21Plainfield, NJ35-1 pts
21West New York, NJ35+6.5 pts
23Glassboro, NJ34.7+2.2 pts
24Long Branch, NJ34.6+2.6 pts
25Guttenberg, NJ34.5+6.8 pts
26Freehold, NJ34.4+1.4 pts
27Bound Brook, NJ34.1+3 pts
28Phillipsburg, NJ34-1 pts
29Somers Point, NJ33.6-1.9 pts
30Elizabeth, NJ33.5-0.4 pts
31Gloucester City, NJ33.2+2.5 pts
32Manville, NJ33.1+2.5 pts
32New Brunswick, NJ33.1-1.6 pts
34Hammonton, NJ32.8-1.2 pts
35Roselle, NJ32.7-1.2 pts
36Kearny, NJ32.5+6.1 pts
37Fairview, NJ32.4+2.3 pts
38Garfield, NJ32.1+0.5 pts
38Red Bank, NJ32.1+1.8 pts
40Beachwood, NJ32-0.5 pts
41Bayonne, NJ31.8+6 pts
42Collingswood, NJ31.4+3.1 pts
43South River, NJ31.3-0.6 pts
44Hackensack, NJ31+0.3 pts
45Carteret, NJ30.9-1.3 pts
46Englewood, NJ30.7-0.1 pts
47Hopatcong, NJ30.6-2.8 pts
47Point Pleasant, NJ30.6+0.6 pts
49Eatontown, NJ30.5+1.7 pts
49Linden, NJ30.5+0.7 pts
49Lodi, NJ30.5+0.9 pts
52Bellmawr, NJ30.3+0.2 pts
53South Amboy, NJ30-2.1 pts
54Ridgefield Park, NJ29.6+2.1 pts
55Middlesex, NJ29.5-2 pts
56Rahway, NJ29.3+0.7 pts
57Elmwood Park, NJ29.1+1.4 pts
58Morristown, NJ28.9+0.9 pts
59Somerville, NJ28.8+0.7 pts
60Sayreville, NJ28.7-1.6 pts
61Jersey City, NJ28.5+3.7 pts
62Clifton, NJ28.4+0.2 pts
62Hackettstown, NJ28.4-2.3 pts
62North Arlington, NJ28.4+0.8 pts
62Wallington, NJ28.4+0.3 pts
62Woodland Park, NJ28.4+0.1 pts
67Harrison, NJ28.1+3.7 pts
67Hawthorne, NJ28.1+0.2 pts
67Tinton Falls, NJ28.1+2 pts
70Ocean City, NJ27.9-1.2 pts
71Totowa, NJ27.7+0.7 pts
72Cliffside Park, NJ27.6+0.3 pts
73Wanaque, NJ27.4+0.4 pts
74Hasbrouck Heights, NJ27.3+0.6 pts
75Pompton Lakes, NJ27.2+0.4 pts
75South Plainfield, NJ27.2-2.3 pts
77East Rutherford, NJ26.80 pts
78Maywood, NJ26.6-0.7 pts
79Little Ferry, NJ26.5-0.3 pts
80Ringwood, NJ26-0.7 pts
80Roselle Park, NJ26+0.5 pts
80Waldwick, NJ26+0.1 pts
83Highland Park, NJ25.8-0.7 pts
84Westwood, NJ25.7-0.3 pts
85Bergenfield, NJ25.6+0.4 pts
85Lincoln Park, NJ25.6-0.4 pts
87Hoboken, NJ25.3+5.2 pts
88Dumont, NJ25.2-0.1 pts
88Metuchen, NJ25.2-2.3 pts
88Oakland, NJ25.2-1 pts
88Rutherford, NJ25.2-0.1 pts
88Wood-Ridge, NJ25.2-1.1 pts
93Hillsdale, NJ25.1-0.6 pts
94Fair Lawn, NJ25+0.2 pts
95Haddonfield, NJ24.9+0.4 pts
96Secaucus, NJ24.7+3.2 pts
97Ramsey, NJ24.4-0.4 pts
98New Milford, NJ24.3-0.6 pts
99Chatham, NJ24.1-0.1 pts
99Madison, NJ24.1+0.5 pts
101Kinnelon, NJ24-1.2 pts
102Montvale, NJ23.9-0.8 pts
102Ridgefield, NJ23.9-2 pts
104Florham Park, NJ23.8+0.4 pts
105Glen Rock, NJ23.4-0.7 pts
106Franklin Lakes, NJ23-1 pts
106Paramus, NJ23+0.1 pts
106Summit, NJ23-0.8 pts
109Edgewater, NJ22.9+1.3 pts
109Ridgewood, NJ22.9-0.8 pts
111Princeton, NJ22.7+5 pts
112Westfield, NJ22.4-0.5 pts
113River Edge, NJ22.1-1.1 pts
114Fort Lee, NJ21.7-0.4 pts
115New Providence, NJ21.2-1.1 pts
116Tenafly, NJ21-0.9 pts
117Palisades Park, NJ19.8-0.9 pts

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About this ranking

Percentage of adults with a body mass index of 30 or more, calculated from self-reported weight and height. Model-based estimate for adults aged 18 and over from CDC PLACES. Crude prevalence, not age-adjusted.

US counties and cities (incorporated places of 10,000 or more). CDC PLACES combines Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) answers with local population data through multilevel regression and poststratification, so a county or city value is a model estimate, not a survey count. The year is the BRFSS survey year, not the release year. CDC says the method does not support tracking change in a place over time, and each annual release can change the model, so values for different years are not strictly comparable. A state is missing in a year when its BRFSS data did not meet standards (Kentucky and Pennsylvania in 2023, Florida in 2021). Connecticut counties appear as its nine planning regions from 2022; its eight former counties are not served. City values for 2021 come from the 2023 release, built on 2010 Census place boundaries; later years use 2020 boundaries. State and national values come from direct BRFSS estimates under adult_obesity_rate.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the cities are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data (eav7-hnsx, sd8v-uq83, krqc-563j and later releases), adult obesity rate, crude prevalence. https://www.cdc.gov/places/. Retrieved 2026-10-12. These data are available free from CDC. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, ATSDR, HHS or the United States Government.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2025). PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data (eav7-hnsx, sd8v-uq83, krqc-563j and later releases), adult obesity rate, crude prevalence (Cities in New Jersey by adult obesity rate, local model estimate, 2022) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www.cdc.gov/places/

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PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data (eav7-hnsx, sd8v-uq83, krqc-563j and later releases), adult obesity rate, crude prevalence, Cities in New Jersey by adult obesity rate, local model estimate, 2022. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 12 Dec. 2025, https://www.cdc.gov/places/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/adult-obesity-rate-county-estimate/new-jersey-cities?period=2022. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2025. PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data (eav7-hnsx, sd8v-uq83, krqc-563j and later releases), adult obesity rate, crude prevalence. Cities in New Jersey by adult obesity rate, local model estimate, 2022. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www.cdc.gov/places/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/adult-obesity-rate-county-estimate/new-jersey-cities?period=2022.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025) PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data (eav7-hnsx, sd8v-uq83, krqc-563j and later releases), adult obesity rate, crude prevalence, Cities in New Jersey by adult obesity rate, local model estimate, 2022 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/places/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/adult-obesity-rate-county-estimate/new-jersey-cities?period=2022 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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  title = {{PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data (eav7-hnsx, sd8v-uq83, krqc-563j and later releases), adult obesity rate, crude prevalence: Cities in New Jersey by adult obesity rate, local model estimate, 2022}},
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Which city has the highest adult obesity rate, local model estimate?

Bridgeton, NJ, with 43.5% in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Which city has the lowest adult obesity rate, local model estimate?

Palisades Park, NJ, with 19.8% in 2022.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Place Data (eav7-hnsx, sd8v-uq83, krqc-563j and later releases), adult obesity rate, crude prevalence. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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