New Jersey Transit Score Index
2050 TRANSIT
Possibilities for the Future
Every census tract in New Jersey, scored for the level of transit its land use can support. The index combines household density, population density, workplace employment density and the density of households without full access to a car.
Read the 2050 Transit Score report →Method, calibration, statewide results and the full 2000–2026 project audit.
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Transit Score — 2024
Share of population in each category. Select a band to hide it.
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NJ TRANSIT rail & light rail
Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan. Select a tract, station or project marker for detail. Tract boundaries are generalised for display. Six water-only tracts with no land area are excluded from the index.
Project corridors. Where a 2000 proposal would have used an existing rail right-of-way, that corridor is
drawn from OpenStreetMap
(ODbL) by its OSM line name. Ten of the thirty-four projects have corridor geometry; the rest are shown as
markers. No vector alignment was ever published for the 2000 map.
Sources. Population, households and vehicle availability: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-Year Estimates (tables B01003, B25044, B25010, B08141, B08301). Employment: U.S. Census Bureau LEHD LODES8 Workplace Area Characteristics, 2023. Land area, roads, railways, water, boundaries and place names: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024. Municipal populations for label ranking: 2020 Census P.L. 94-171. NJ TRANSIT lines and stations: NJ TRANSIT published rail GTFS feed, drawn on the right-of-way as recorded there. The Meadowlands Rail Line is carried in that feed only as a pair of endpoints, so its alignment is traced instead through the Sports Line and Bergen County Line as mapped in OpenStreetMap (ODbL). 2050 forecasts: NJTPA municipal forecasts, DVRPC 2050 v2.1, and SJTPO RTP 2050.
Sources. Population, households and vehicle availability: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-Year Estimates (tables B01003, B25044, B25010, B08141, B08301). Employment: U.S. Census Bureau LEHD LODES8 Workplace Area Characteristics, 2023. Land area, roads, railways, water, boundaries and place names: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024. Municipal populations for label ranking: 2020 Census P.L. 94-171. NJ TRANSIT lines and stations: NJ TRANSIT published rail GTFS feed, drawn on the right-of-way as recorded there. The Meadowlands Rail Line is carried in that feed only as a pair of endpoints, so its alignment is traced instead through the Sports Line and Bergen County Line as mapped in OpenStreetMap (ODbL). 2050 forecasts: NJTPA municipal forecasts, DVRPC 2050 v2.1, and SJTPO RTP 2050.