# Counties in New Jersey by social vulnerability score (FEMA National Risk Index), 2025

All 21 values come from Federal Emergency Management Agency for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `nri_social_vulnerability_score`
- Unit: index
- Definition: Social vulnerability of a US county as used in FEMA's National Risk Index, from 0 to 100: the county's national percentile rank among all counties, based on the Census Bureau's Community Resilience Estimates, which count residents with social and economic risk factors such as low income, age, disability and household conditions. Higher means more vulnerable.
- Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE) (https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/fema
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Risk Index Dataset: National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE). https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355. Retrieved 2026-10-12. This product uses the FEMA National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/social-vulnerability-score/new-jersey-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hudson County | 84.4 |
| 2 | Essex County | 80.3 |
| 3 | Passaic County | 76 |
| 4 | Union County | 55.8 |
| 5 | Camden County | 54.7 |
| 6 | Cumberland County | 54.1 |
| 7 | Ocean County | 48.6 |
| 8 | Middlesex County | 47.4 |
| 9 | Mercer County | 46.9 |
| 10 | Atlantic County | 46.5 |
| 11 | Cape May County | 37.2 |
| 12 | Bergen County | 34 |
| 13 | Salem County | 27.4 |
| 14 | Burlington County | 16.3 |
| 15 | Gloucester County | 16 |
| 16 | Monmouth County | 15.8 |
| 17 | Warren County | 12.2 |
| 18 | Hunterdon County | 10.6 |
| 18 | Morris County | 10.6 |
| 18 | Somerset County | 10.6 |
| 18 | Sussex County | 10.6 |