New Jersey
Top 100 finalists
City Population
Cherry Hill 71,800
Edison 100,500
Middletown 67,800
Parsippany-Troy Hills 51,600
Wayne 55,200
Other cities
City Population
Bayonne 58,947
Brick 83,122
Camden 80,252
Clifton 80,816
Dover 97,087
East Brunswick 50,544
East Orange 70,293
Elizabeth 124,553
Franklin 54,644
Gloucester 66,857
Hamilton 91,473
Howell 51,339
Irvington 60,046
Jersey City 241,563
New Brunswick 50,990
Newark 281,083
North Bergen 59,077
Passaic 69,007
Paterson 154,714
Perth Amboy 49,651
Piscataway 52,904
Toms River 93,445
Trenton 88,601
Union 55,954
Union City 65,226
Vineland 58,602
Washington 50,458
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New Jersey companies
FORTUNE: Best to work for
Company Best Companies
2006 Rank
John Wiley & Sons 90
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FORTUNE 500
Company F500 rank
Johnson & Johnson 32
Medco Health Solutions 51
Prudential Financial 64
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Biggest employers
Company Employees
Prudential Financial, Inc. 13,100
Lockheed Martin Space Operations Company 5,950
J F K Johnson Rehabilition Institute 5,000
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  Median household income
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  Avg. high temp
in July (°F)
Avondale, AZ 107.6°F
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  Median price
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Greenwich, CT $1,129,000
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  % residents with
graduate degrees
Arlington, VA 35.7%
Davis, CA 34.6%
Brookline, MA 32.5%
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  % single residents
Bloomington, IN 58.2%
New Brunswick, NJ 54.6%
College Station, TX 54.3%
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  Median age
Jacksonville, NC 22.90
Provo, UT 23.28
New Brunswick, NJ 24.16
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