New Jersey
Five towns with top-notch health care, loads of culture, lots of green space and low taxes were selected as the Best Places to Retire this year. How do other places rate? See key data for the 700+ U.S. cities from the Best Places to Live database. All have populations exceeding 50,000.
City Population
Bayonne 58,947
Brick 83,122
Camden 80,252
Cherry Hill 71,800
Clifton 80,816
Dover 97,087
East Brunswick 50,544
East Orange 70,293
Edison 100,500
Elizabeth 124,553
Franklin 54,644
Gloucester 66,857
Hamilton 91,473
Howell 51,339
Irvington 60,046
Jersey City 241,563
Middletown 67,800
New Brunswick 50,990
Newark 281,083
North Bergen 59,077
Parsippany-Troy Hills 51,600
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
Wayne 55,200
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Affordable homes
  Median home
sale price 2005
Reading, PA $42,850
Buffalo, NY $45,000
Niagara Falls, NY $47,000
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Most golf played
  Golf activity index
(100=national avg.,
200=twice national avg.)
Coconut Creek, FL 141
Palm Harbor, FL 139
Palm Desert, CA 134
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Tennis
  Tennis activity index
(100=national avg.,
200=twice national avg.)
Bethesda, MD 163
Greenwich, CT 161
Davis, CA 161
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Most country club members
  Percentage of
households
Palm Desert, CA 2.0
Bethesda, MD 2.0
Greenwich, CT 1.8
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Most educated
  % residents with
graduate degree
Arlington, VA 35.7
Davis, CA 34.6
Brookline, MA 32.5
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Oldest
  Median age
Tamarac, FL 49.69
Lake Havasu City, AZ 46.71
St. Simons Island, GA 46.66
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